Where does “kırpık” come from?

kırpık (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish كرپك, from Old Turkic kirpik, from Proto-Turkic kirpik — eyelash.

kırpık (Turkish): cut, cropped, snipped

Definitions

  1. cut, cropped, snipped

Ancestry of “kırpık”, step by step

kırpık traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ottoman Turkish كرپك

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishكرپكeyelash, one of the hairs which grow along the edge of eyelids
2Old Turkickirpik—
3Proto-Turkickirpikeyelash

via Turkish kırpmak

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishkırpmakto trim, to crop
Every word from Proto-Turkic kirpik →Every word from Old Turkic kirpik →Every word from Ottoman Turkish كرپك →