kalık

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. lacking, incomplete; defective
2. remaining, left

Noun

1. defect, imperfection
2. residue, remnant
3. old maid, spinster

Sinónimos

evde kalmış kız

kız kurusu

Traducciones

spinster

vieille fille

incomplet

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de turco otomano: قالیق

Cognado con armenio: տանը մնացած

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish قالیق (qalyq). For the development of the sense “old maid, spinster” from the idea of “remaining, left”, compare Armenian տանը մնացած (tanə mnacʻac, “old maid, spinster”, literally “left at home”), and evde kalmak (“to pass the age to marry”, literally “to be left at home”), from kalmak (“to be left, to remain” → “to stay” → “to wait” → “to grow old”).