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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قراواش (karavaş), from Old Anatolian Turkish قَرَوَاشْ (qaravaş), from Proto-Turkic *kara baĺč[1]. Morphologically kara + baş. Compare Azerbaijani qarabaş.
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Noun
karavaş (definite accusative karavaşı, plural karavaşlar)
- (historical) female slave
- (Bursa, Ankara, Kars) concubine
- Synonyms: cariye, odalık
Declension
References
Further reading
- “karavaş”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- “karavaş”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982