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Inherited from Common Turkic*kulač. Kashgari suggests that it is a compound of قُلْ(qol, “arm”) + ااجـ(ač-, “open”), however this is considered folk etymology by Clauson.[1]
بيِرْ قُلَجْ بَرْجِنْ ― Bīr qulač barčïn. ― A fathom of brocade.
References
^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kulaç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 618
Further reading
al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 358-359
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gladius”, 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 652
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3743–3744
