cılk

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish جلق, of unknown origin.

Adjective

cılk

  1. addled, rotten (of an egg)
  2. inflamed, festering (of a wound)

Derived terms
  • cılk çıkmak (“to come to nought”)

Further reading
  • “cılk”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cılk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 671
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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