قوللق

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Ottoman Turkish

قوللق

Alternative forms

Etymology

From قول (kul, servant) +‎ ـلق (-luk).

Noun

قوللق (kulluk)

  1. servanthood, service, serving
    1. work owed by a villein or serf to his feudal lord, corvée
    2. official patrols to ensure security and order in the streets (in Istanbul performed by janissary orders)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: kulluk
  • Aromanian: culuche (corvée; drudgery; patrol)
  • Albanian: kulluk
  • Bulgarian: кулу́к (kulúk, corvée)
  • Macedonian: кулук (kuluk, corvée)
  • Romanian: culuc (patrol)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (corvée; drudgery)
    Cyrillic script: ку̀лук
    Latin script: kùluk

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوللق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3805
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “389. CULUЌE”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 103