kolağası

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish قول اغاسی, equivalent to kol +‎ ağa.

Noun

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kolağası (definite accusative kolağasını, plural kolağaları)

  1. (military, historical) An adjutant major in the Ottoman armed forces.

References

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 986
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1492
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN