colek

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• Related to culit, colet, colok and jolok.
• Sense of sauce influenced by calit “to smear”.
• Sense of match akin to colok now meaning “incense”.

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colek (Jawi spelling چوليق)

1. to pry out

   Synonyms: jolok, cungkil

2. (obsolete) to scrape something off a surface

   Synonyms: kikis, kuis, gores

   1. to scrape especially with a finger, rod etc
3. to dip something lightly in a sauce, gravy, etc.

   Synonym: cicah

   Colek sedikit pelekat ini dengan span.

   Dip this paste lightly witg sponge.

colek (Jawi spelling چوليق, plural colek-colek or colek²)

1. sauce (esp. of rojak)
2. (obsolete) match, device used to ignite a flame

   Synonyms: mancis, korek

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “چولق tjoelik”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 117
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “چولق cholek”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 273
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “cholek”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 232

• "colek" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Clipping of cokolwiek.

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɔ.lɛk]
• (Masovia):
  • (Łowicz) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɔ.lɛk]

colek n

1. (Kuyavia, Łowicz) alternative form of cokolwiek

• Józef Bliziński (1860), “colek”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 621
• Oskar Kolberg (1867), “colek”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 269
• Marzena Kozanecka-Zwierz, Magdalena Bartosiewicz, Renata Marciniak-Firadza, editors (2014), “colek”, in Gwara – Księżaków "język ojczysty" Dziedzictwo regionu łowickiego (in Polish), Łowicz: Muzeum w Łowiczu, →ISBN, page 25