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Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اولق (oluk).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǒluk/
- Hyphenation: o‧luk
Noun
òluk m (Cyrillic spelling о̀лук)
- (Bosnia, regional) gutter, groove, drainpipe
- (rare) rifled gun barrel
Declension
Synonyms
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish اولق (oluk), from Proto-Turkic *oluk (“gutter, hollowed-out tree”).
Noun
oluk (definite accusative oluğu, plural oluklar)
- gutter
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “oluk”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu