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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوتلاق (otlaḳ, “a grass-land, pasture”),[1] from اوتلامق (otlamaḳ, “for a beast to feed on a growing pasture”), from اوت (ot, “grass, any herb”), from Proto-Turkic *ot (“grass”),[2][3] morphologically ot + -la + -k. Cognates with Azerbaijani otlaq, Turkmen otlag, Uzbek oʻtloq.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /otˈɫak/
- Hyphenation: ot‧lak
Noun
otlak (definite accusative otlağı, plural otlaklar)
- A place where livestock is let to graze; a pasture, grassland.
- Synonyms: mera, yaylak, salmalık, örü
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوتلاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 236
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ot”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “otlak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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