Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كسك (kesik, “cut, cut through or off in pieces, curdled, coagulated, castrated”), from كسمك (kesmek, “to cut, to interrupt, to clot, to curdle”), from Proto-Turkic *kes- (“to cut”), morphologically kes- + -ik. Cognates with Azerbaijani kəsik, Kazakh кесік (kesık), Kyrgyz кесик (kesik), Turkmen kesik.