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yelek.

waistcoat, vest

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. waistcoat, vest

  2. jelick

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish یلك (yelek), from Old Anatolian Turkish يَلَك (yélek), from Old Anatolian Turkish يَل (yél, “wind”) -ek (“noun forming suffix”), from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”).

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