فلقه

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Arabic فَلَقَة (falaqa, falaka), which is ultimately from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, battle-array; round piece of wood).

Noun

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فلقه (falaka)

  1. 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

Descendants

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  • Turkish: falaka
  • Armenian: ֆալախա (falaxa)

Further reading

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  • 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