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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian گلخان (gulxân, “backroom”), a compound of گل (gul, “back”) + خان (xân, “place, house”).
Noun
كولخان • (külhan)
- the furnace located in a service room behind the walls, used to heat water which was then delivered to the steam room
- Synonym: تون (tun)
Derived terms
- كولخانجی (külhancı, “stoker in a hammam”)
- كولخانی (külhanî, “young vagrant, street Arab”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “külhan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2889
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كلخان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 394a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كولخان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1058
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fornax balnei”, 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 604
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كلخان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3996
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “külhan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كولخان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1600