ılık

Meaning

Between hot and cold; warm, tepid, mild.

Concepts

warm

☀️

lukewarm

tepid

temperate

soft

mild

Laodicean

luke

piss-warm

Synonyms

sıcak

🥵

gayretsiz

içten

kayıtsız

Translations

lauwarm

tiède

tibio

☀️

tépido

morno

tiepido

warm

☀️

tebi

lau

lauw

tèbia

caliente

🥵

chaud

☀️

caldo

☀️

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɯˈɫɯk/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: ایلیق

Cognate with Kazakh: жылы

Cognate with Kyrgyz: жылуу

Cognate with Southern Altai: јылу

Cognate with Uzbek: iliq

Cognate with Turkmen: ýyly

Cognate with Azerbaijani: ilıq

Cognate with Bashkir: йылы

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ایلیق (ılık, “warm, lukewarm”), from Proto-Turkic *yïlïg (“warm, hot”), from Proto-Turkic *yïlï- (“to be warm”). By surface analysis, ılı- + -k.