калека

• калѣ́ка (kalě́ka) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
• каля́ка (kaljáka), каля́га (kaljága) (dialectal)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قالیق (qalyq).

Older sources derived from Persian کالک (kâlak, “hideous”) via Ottoman Turkish كالك (kālak).

The word кали́ка (kalíka, “wanderer”) may be related.

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈlʲekə]

кале́ка • (kaléka) m anim or f anim (genitive кале́ки, nominative plural кале́ки, genitive plural кале́к)

1. cripple (person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities; has some negative connotation)

• кале́чить (kaléčitʹ), покале́чить (pokaléčitʹ), искале́чить (iskaléčitʹ)
• кали́ка (kalíka) (possibly)

• Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 473
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “калека”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Matzenauer, Antonín (1870) “калика”, in Cizí slova ve slovanských řečech [Foreign words in Slavic languages] (in Czech), Brno: Matica Moravská, page 39
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “каліка”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Miklosich, Franz (1886) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 109b