اسیرلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

اسیر (esir, yesir, “captive, slave”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, noun-forming suffix)

Noun

اسیرلك • (esirlik or yesirlik)

1. captivity as a prisoner of war
2. slavery

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسیرلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116