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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From böl- + -ük.
Pronunciation
Noun
bölük (definite accusative bölüyü, plural bölüklər)
- (military) company
- Synonym: rota
Declension
Further reading
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بلوك (bölük, “a part, division, fragment, a military company or squad”)[1] (alternative forms; بولك, بولوك), from Ottoman Turkish بولمك (bölmek, “to divide, to separate”), from Proto-Turkic *böl- (“to separate”) (which lacks record of written form).[2] By surface analysis, böl- + -ük.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bœˈlyk/
- Hyphenation: bö‧lük
Noun
bölük (definite accusative bölüğü, plural bölükler)
- A piece broken off from the whole; section, part, component.
- Synonyms: kısım, parça, (religious) cüz
- (of hair) Braid.
- Synonyms: saç örgüsü, (regional) belik
- Faction, splinter group.
- Synonym: (archaic) hizip
- (military) A company made up of around 100 soldiers, divided into at least 2 takıms and 3 or 4 of which make up a tabur.
- (mathematics) Each 3 digit section in the decimal counting from right to left; the place value.
Declension
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References
Further reading
- “bölük”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu