فلقه
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See also: فلقة
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic فَلَقَة (falaqa, “falaka”), which is ultimately from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “battle-array; round piece of wood”).
Noun
[edit]فلقه • (falaka)
- stout staff with a loop of rope let through two holes, by which the feet of a culprit are held up for the punishment of the bastinado
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فلقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 909
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فلقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1395