بكلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

بك (bey) +‎ ـلك (-lik). Compare also historical regional Russian беляк (beljak, “duchy”).

Noun

بكلك • (beylik) (plural بكلكلر (beylikler))

1. the rank, office, or quality of a Bey
2. a region or tribe ruled over by a Bey; a principality
3. the government or public treasury of a realm or a district
4. any duty or tax payable to government
5. anything belonging as property to the government

Descendants

• Turkish: beylik
• → English: beylik

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بكلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 378