آرقهلق
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From آرقه (arka, “back”) + ـلق (-lık, luk).
Noun
آرقهلق • (arkalık)
- backrest, the back piece of a chair, armchair or sofa
- arkhalig, a long, tight-waist jacket worn in Caucasus and Iran
Descendants
- Turkish: arkalık
- → Armenian: արխալուղ (arxaluł)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “arkalık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 293
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “آرقهلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 14
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “آرقهلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 71