اولق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- الوق (oluk), اولوق (oluk)
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *oluk (“hollowed-out tree”).
Noun
اولق • (oluk)
- gutter, conduit, channel, drain
Descendants
- Turkish: oluk
- → Bulgarian: олу̀к (olùk)
- → Macedonian: олук (oluk)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̀лук
- Latin: òluk
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اولق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 543
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “اولق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 130