الك

Karakhanid

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ilk (“first”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰃𐰠𐰚 (ilk, “first”), Turkish ilk (“first, firstly”), Bashkir элек (elek, “before, ago”).

Adjective

اِلْكْ (ilk)

1. first in (order of time)

Adverb

اِلْكْ (ilk)

1. first, foremost, firstly

Ottoman Turkish

الك

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *elgek (“sieve”); cognate with Azerbaijani ələk, Bashkir иләк (ilək), Chuvash ала (ala), Kazakh елек (elek), Kyrgyz элек (elek), Turkmen elek, Uyghur ئەلگەك (elgek) and Uzbek elak.

Noun

الك • (elek)

1. sieve, screen, cribble, riddle any device used to separate larger particles from smaller ones

   Synonyms: غربال (girbal), قلبور (kalbur)

Derived terms

• الكجی (elekci, “siever”)
• الكدن گچیرمك (elekden geçirmek, “to sieve”)
• الكلك (eleklik, “quality of a sieve”)
• الكلمك (eleklemek, “to sift, sieve”)
• الكلنمك (eleklenmek, “to be sifted”)
• قیل الك (kıl elek, “kind of sieve”)

Descendants

• Turkish: elek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “elek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1414
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “الك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 62b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “الك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 138
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cribrum”, 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 301
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “الك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 393
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “الك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 187