حماملق

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Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

From حمام (ḥammām) +‎ ـلق (-lıḳ). Seemingly Turkish hamamlık (washroom), as also Macedonian амамлак (amamlak, bathhouse), are separate parallel formation.

Noun

حماملق (ḥammāmlıḳ)

  1. charge for a bathhouse session
    • 1451, فرج بعد الشد [ferec baʿd eş-şidde], Budapest ms., folio 118r, lines 10–11[1]:
      حَمَّامِلِقْ سكَا اُونْ دِینَارِ زَرِ سُرخْ وِیرَلَرْ
      ḥammāmlıḳ saŋa on dīnār-ı zer-i sürḫ vėreler
      Let them give thee ten dinars worth of gold coin for the cost of the bathhouse.

Descendants

  • Bulgarian: хамамлъ́к (hamamlǎ́k)

References

  1. ^ Hazai, György, Tietze, Andreas, editors (2021), “Ferec baʿd eş-şidde. Freud nach Leid”, in Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker, volume 5.2 Faksimiles, Budapest: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 222
  • Tietze, Andreas (2009) “hammam”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume 2, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 247b