salık

Meaning

  1. (dated) advice, suggestion
  2. (dated) Information about a past or future event; news, word, report.

Translations

Pronounced as (IPA)
/saˈɫɯk/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صالق (ṣalıḳ, “at liberty, free, loose, thrown, cast, vagrant, savage”), from Ottoman Turkish صالمق (ṣalmaḳ, “to loose, to free, to let go, to send”), from Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to swing, to let hang down, to let go, to spare, to set free, to drop, to lower”), morphologically sal- + -ık. Cognates with Azerbaijani salıq (“news”), Kazakh салық (salyq, “tax, duty”), Kyrgyz салык (salık, “tax, duty”), Turkmen salyk (“drooping”).

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