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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From South Slavic, perhaps via Albanian plaçkë (“loot, booty”). See also Bulgarian пля́чка (pljáčka), Romanian pleașcă and Serbo-Croatian pljȁčka / пља̏чка.
Noun
پلاچقه • (plaçka) (definite accusative پلاچقهیی (plaçkayı), plural پلاچقهلر (plaçkalar))
- loot, booty, spoil, plunder, goods seized from an enemy with violence
- Synonyms: تاراج (tarac), چاپول (çapul), غنیمت (ganimet), یغما (yağma)
- broody, broody-hen, a female bird in the condition to incubate eggs
- Synonym: قولوچقه (kuluçka)
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Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پلاچقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 405
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “plaçka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3868b
- Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “پلاچقه”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn , Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 199a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلاچقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 323b
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلاچقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 451b
- Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “پلاچقه”, in قاموس تركی (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 457c