آوجیلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آوجی (avcı, “hunter”) +‎ ـلق (-lık).

Noun

آوجیلق • (avcılık)

1. the state or condition of being a hunter

Descendants

• Turkish: avcılık
• → Bulgarian: авджилъ́к (avdžilǎ́k)
• → Serbo-Croatian: авџилук／avdžiluk

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آوجیلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 40
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آوجیلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 239