قولتق
Ottoman Turkish
قولتق
Etymology
A development of Proto-Turkic *kol (“upper arm”), whence also Ottoman Turkish قول (qol, “arm, sleeve, branch”); cognate with Azerbaijani qoltuq, Bashkir ҡултыҡ (qultıq), Kazakh қолтық (qoltyq), Turkmen goltuk and Uzbek qo'ltiq.
Noun
قولتق • (koltuk)
- armpit, the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder
- Synonyms: ابط (ibt), بغل (bağal), كش (keş)
- (figuratively) out of the way place, nook, middle of nowhere
- armchair, a chair with supports for the arms or elbows
Derived terms
- قولتقجی (koltukcu, “hawker, peddlar”)
- قولتقلامق (koltuklamak, “to support”)
- قولتقلانمق (koltuklanmak, “to become supported”)
- قولتقلق (koltukluk, “gusset under the armpit”)
- قولتقلو (koltuklu, “provided with a seat”)
Descendants
- Turkish: koltuk
- → Armenian: խոլթուխ (xoltʿux), կոլթուխ (koltʿux)
- → Laz: კოლთუღი (ǩoltuği), ქოლთუღი (koltuği)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “koltuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2722
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قولتق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 988
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Axilla”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 111
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قولتق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3804
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “koltuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قولتق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1496