اولق

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Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ulag, from Proto-Turkic *ula-. See اُولَمَقْ (ulamaq) for more.

Noun

اُولَقْ (ulaq)

messenger, courier, a person who delivers news
delegate

Descendants

Ottoman Turkish: اولاق (ulak)
- Turkish: ulak
- → Romanian: olac

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *oluk (“hollowed-out tree”).

Noun

اُولُقْ (oluq)

gutter

Descendants

Ottoman Turkish: اولق (oluk), الوق (oluk), اولوق (oluk)
- Turkish: oluk
- → Albanian: ulluk
- → Armenian: օլուխ (ōlux)
- → Bulgarian: олу́к (olúk)
- → Greek: λούκι (loúki)
- → Macedonian: олук (oluk)
- → Romanian: oluc, uluc
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: о̀лук
  Latin script: òluk

Further reading

Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 139

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

الوق (oluk), اولوق (oluk)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اُولُقْ (oluq), from Proto-Turkic *oluk (“hollowed-out tree”) ; cognate with Bashkir улаҡ (ulaq), Nogai олык (olık) and Tatar улак (ulaq).

Noun

اولق • (oluk)

gutter, a channel intended for the drainage of water
Synonym: ناو (nav)
downspout, a spout by which rain runs from a roof
Synonym: میزاب (mizab)
carpenter's gouge, a chisel for scooping channels or grooves
Synonym: اسكنه (iskene)

Derived terms

آغاج اولق (ağac oluk, “wooden spout”)
آلتون اولق (altun oluk, “gold spout”)
اولقلو (oluklu, “channeled”)

Descendants

Turkish: oluk
→ Albanian: ulluk
→ Armenian: օլուխ (ōlux)
→ Bulgarian: олу́к (olúk)
→ Greek: λούκι (loúki)
→ Macedonian: олук (oluk)
→ Romanian: oluc, uluc
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: о̀лук

Latin script: òluk

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oluk2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3611
Eren, Hasan (1999) “oluk”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 306b
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اولق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 86a
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اولق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 203
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Canalis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 140
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اولق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 543
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oluk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اولق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 269

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