تلكی

Ottoman Turkish

تلكی

Alternative forms

• دلكو (dilkü)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish دلكو (dilkü, “fox”), itself from Proto-Turkic *tülki, *tilkü (“fox”); cognate with Azerbaijani tülkü, Bashkir төлкө (tölkö), Chuvash тилӗ (tilĕ), Kazakh түлкі (tülkı), Kyrgyz түлкү (tülkü), Turkmen tilki, Uyghur تۈلكە (tülke) and Uzbek tulki.

Noun

تلكی • (tilki)

1. fox, any of various canids in the genus Vulpes

   Synonyms: ثعلب (seʿleb), روباه (rubah)

2. (figurative) fox, a sly and cunning person

Derived terms

• آق تلكی (ak tilki, “arctic fox”)
• تلكی اوزومی (tilki üzümü, “nightshade”)
• تلكی طاشاغی (tilki taşağı, “green-winged orchid”)
• تلكی طرناغی (tilki tırnağı, “early spring orchid”)
• تلكی قویروغی (tilki kuyruğu, “foxtail”)
• تلكیلك (tilkilik, “slyness, craftiness”)
• سیاه تلكی (siyah tilki, “silver fox”)
• قرمزی تلكی (kırmızı tilki, “red fox”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tilki
• → Armenian: թիլքի (tʻilkʻi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tilki1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4827
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دلكو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 228b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تلكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 399
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vulpes”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1801
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دلكو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2126
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tilki”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تلكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 589