قیل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kïl; cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (kil), Yakut кыл (kıl), Uyghur قىل (qil), Kazakh қыл (qyl), Bashkir ҡыл (qıl, “hair”) and Kyrgyz кыл (kıl).

Noun

قیل • (qıl)

  1. (in general) hair, bristle
  2. haircloth, sackcloth
  3. hair-like thing or object
  4. hair's breadth, slight portion

Coordinate terms

  • توی (tüy, “hair on the body”)
  • صاچ (saç, “hair on the head”)

Derived terms

  • قیلجغز (qılcağız, “small hair or bristle”)
  • قیلجه (qılca, “in respect of hair”)
  • قیلچق (qılçık, “fishbone”)

Descendants

  • Gagauz: kıl
  • Turkish: kıl
  • → Armenian: խըլ (xəl)

Further reading

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