حماملق
Appearance
Old Anatolian Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From حمام (ḥammām) + ـلق (-lıḳ). Seemingly Turkish hamamlık (“washroom”), as also Macedonian амамлак (amamlak, “bathhouse”), are separate parallel formation.
Noun
[edit]حماملق (ḥammāmlıḳ)
- charge for a bathhouse session
- 1451, فرج بعد الشد [ferec baʿd eş-şidde], Budapest ms., folio 118r, lines 10–11[1]:
- حَمَّامِلِقْ سكَا اُونْ دِینَارِ زَرِ سُرخْ وِیرَلَرْ
- ḥammāmlıḳ saŋa on dīnār-ı zer-i sürḫ vėreler
- Let them give thee ten dinars worth of gold coin for the cost of the bathhouse.
Descendants
[edit]- → Bulgarian: хамамлъ́к (hamamlǎ́k)
References
[edit]- Tietze, Andreas (2009) “hammam”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume 2, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 247b