گوگرجینلك

Ottoman Turkish

گوگرجینلك

Etymology

From گوگرجین (güvercin, “rock dove, pigeon”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, luk).

Noun

گوگرجینلك • (güvercinlik)

1. (historical) dovecote, a tower-like structure in which pigeons were kept
2. pepperbox, a tower capped by a cupola, looking similar to a giant pepper shaker
3. Martello tower, a short, sturdy, round masonry fort, usually built along the coast
4. (nautical) small locker in the extreme stern of a Bosporus caique

Descendants

• Turkish: güvercinlik
• → Armenian: կիւվէրճինլիխ (kiwvērčinlix)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “güvercinlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1815
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “گوگرجینلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1056
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Columbarium”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 206
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گوگرجینلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4086
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گوگرجینلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1597