# ایپلك
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

Derived from اِیپْ (ip, “string, thread, rope”)

### Noun

اِیپْلِكْ (iplik)
* fiber
* yarn, thread

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: iplik
* Gagauz: iplik
* Ottoman Turkish: ایپلك (iplik), ایپلیك (iplik)
** Turkish: iplik
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: иплик
    Latin script: iplik

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iplik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* ایپلیك (iplik)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اِیپْلِكْ (iplik, “fiber; yarn, thread”). By surface analysis, ایپ (ip, “string, rope, cord”) +‎ ـلك (lik).

### Noun

ایپلك • (iplik) (definite accusative ایپلكی (ipliği), plural ایپلكلر (iplikler))
* fibre, a single piece of a vegetable or animal material, elongated and often twisted with other fibres to form thread
    Synonym: لیف (lif)
* thread, filament, a long, thin and flexible form of material, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string
    Synonyms: تل (“tel”), خیط (hayt)
* yarn, a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, used in crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, ropemaking, etc.

#### Derived terms

* ایكنه ایپلك (iğne iplik, “haberdashery; skin and bones”)
* ایپلك اكیرمك (iplik eğirmek, “to spin yarn”)
* ایپلك ایپلك (iplik iplik, “in fibers”)
* ایپلك بز (iplik bez, “linen cloth of any kind”)
* ایپلك پنیری (iplik peniri, “kind of cheese marked with threads”)
* ایپلك یوماغی (iplik yumağı, “ball of yarn”)
* ایپلكجی (iplikci, “dealer in threads”)
* ایپلكخانه (iplikhâne, “spinning-mill”)
* ایپلكسز (ipliksiz, “threadless”)
* ایپلكلندرمك (ipliklendirmek, “to beat or wear into fibres”)
* ایپلكلنمك (ipliklenmek, “to separate into fibres”)
* ایپلكلو (iplikli, “fibrous”)
* ایپلیجك (iplicik, “Guinea worm”)
* پاموق ایپلكی (pamuk ipliği, “cotton yarn”)
* یوك ایپلك (yüñ iplik, “woollen yarn”)

#### Related terms

* ایپ (ip, “string”)
* ایپك (ipek, “silk”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: iplik
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: иплик
    Latin script: iplik

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “ایپلیك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 216
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iplik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2197
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اپلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 3b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایپلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 211
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Filum”, 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, Vienna, column 578
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اپلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 30
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iplik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایپلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 286