kalık

Senso (Inglese)

Adj

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

Noun

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

sinonimi

evde kalmış kız

kız kurusu

Traduzioni

spinster

vieille fille

incomplet

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da turco ottomano: قالیق

Affine armeno: 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”).