كلبچه

See also: کلپچه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

كلپچه (kelepçe)

Etymology

كلب (kelep, “yarn”) +‎ ـچه (-çe, diminutive suffix), by confusion with بیلكچه (bilekçe, “handcuff”). Also Azerbaijani kələfçə / and hence Central Kurdish کەلەپچە (kelepçe), Persian (kelepče).

Noun

كلبچه • (kelepçe)

a pair of handcuffs

Descendants

Turkish: kelepçe
→ Arabic: كَلَبْشَة (kalabša)
→ Armenian: քելեփչե (kʻelepʻčʻe)

References

Eren, Hasan (1999) “kelepçe”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 228b
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلبچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1034a
Stachowski, Marek (2019) “kelepçe”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 215a

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