قوللق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- قوللوق (kulluk)
Etymology
قول (kul, “servant”) + ـلق.
Noun
قوللق • (kulluk)
- servanthood, service, serving
- work owed by a villein or serf to his feudal lord, corvée
- official patrols to ensure security and order in the streets (in Istanbul performed by janissary orders)
Derived terms
- قوللقچی (kullukçı, “servant”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kulluk
- → Aromanian: culuche (corvée; drudgery; patrol)
- → Albanian: kulluk
- → Bulgarian: кулу̀к (kulùk, “corvée”)
- → Macedonian: кулук (kuluk, “corvée”)
- → Romanian: culuc (“patrol”)
- → Serbo-Croatian: (“corvée; drudgery”)
- Cyrillic: ку̀лук
- Latin: kùluk
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قوللق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3805
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “389. CULUЌE”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 103