گزلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian گزلک.

Noun

گزلك • (gizlik)

1. penknife, a small knife for cutting the points of reed pens

   Synonym: قلمتراش (kalemtıraş)

2. sheath knife, a knife that fits in a protective sheath when not in use

Descendants

• Turkish: gizlik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gizlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1719
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كزلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scalpellum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1515
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كزلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3942
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كزلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1544