بیراقلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بیراق (bayrak, “flag”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk).

Noun

بیراقلق • (bayraklık)

1. bunting, a thin cloth from which flags are made
2. the quantity of bunting sufficient for a flag
3. the number of militiamen attached to a flag

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیراقلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 419