لک‌لک

Persian

Alternative forms
  • لگ‌لگ (lag-lag), لقلق (laqlaq)

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Semitic. Compare Akkadian 𒀀𒊩𒄷 (laqlaqqu, “stork”), Arabic لَقْلَق (laqlaq, “stork”), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܠܲܩܠܵܩܵܐ (laqlāqā, “stork”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [läk.lǽk]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [läk.lǽk]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [läk.lǽk]

Readings
Classical reading? laklak
Dari reading? laklak
Iranian reading? laklak
Tajik reading? laklak

Noun

لک‌لک • (lak-lak) (plural لک‌لک‌ها (lak-lak-hâ))

  1. stork

Descendants
  • → Chagatai: لکلک (laklak)
    • Uyghur:
      Arabic script: لەگلەك (leglek)
      Cyrillic script: ләгләк (leglek)
    • Uzbek:
      Cyrillic script: лайлак (laylak)
      Latin script: laylak
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: लकलक (laklak)
    Urdu: لَکْلَک (laklak)
  • → Karachay-Balkar: лелек (lelek)
  • → Karaim: leklek
  • → Karakalpak: láylek
  • → Kazakh: ләйлек (läilek), ләйлік (läilık) (proscribed)
    • → Russian: леклек (leklek), леглек (leglek) (Orenburg 18th century)
  • → Kyrgyz: леклек (leklek), легилек (legilek), илегилек (ilegilek)
  • → Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: leylək
    • Ottoman Turkish: لكلك (leklek, leylek), لیلك (leylek)
    • → Armenian: լագլագ (laglag), լակլակ (laklak), լայլակ (laylak), լեյլեկ (leylek)
    • → Avar: лакълакъ (laqxʼlaqxʼ)
    • → Bulgarian: ле́лек (lélek), леляк (leljak), лейлек (lejlek) (archaic, regional)
    • → Church Slavonic: лили́къ (lilíkŭ)
    • → Crimean Tatar: lejlek
    • → Greek: λελέκι (leléki), λέλεκας (lélekas)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: (archaic, regional)
      Cyrillic script: ле́лек, лѐјлек
      Latin script: lélek, lèjlek
    • → Ukrainian: леле́ка (leléka)
  • → Pashto: لکلک (laklák), لګلګ (laglág)
  • → Tatar: ләкләк (läkläk)
  • → Turkmen:
    Cyrillic script: леглек
    Latin script: leglek
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