قلمبك
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately reportedly from the name of an island in the Indian Ocean. Compare French calambac, calambouc, Spanish calambac, Portuguese calambá, calambaque, Italian calambà, calambucco, Venetian canabuco, all ultimately from Malay kalambaq. For sense 2 compare Albanian kallamboq, Greek καλαμπόκι (kalampóki), Romanian călambuc, Aromanian cãlãmbuchi.
Noun[edit]
قلمبك • (kalembek)
- Indian sandalwood (Santalum album) or agarwood (Aquilaria malaccensis)
- corn
- Synonym: مصر (mısr)
Descendants[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
قلمبك • (kalembek)
- An island in the Indian Ocean
References[edit]
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلمبك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 969b
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلمبك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1470b
- Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “قلمبك”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 631a