قلج

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *kulač. Kashgari suggests that it is a compound of قُلْ (qol, “arm”) +‎ ااجـ (ač-, “open”), however this is considered folk etymology by Clauson.

Noun

قُلَجْ (qulač)

1. fathom

   بيِرْ قُلَجْ بَرْجِنْ ― Bīr qulač barčïn. ― A fathom of brocade.

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 358-359

Ottoman Turkish

قلج

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kïlï̄č (“sword”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰶𐰃𐰞𐰲 (q̊²il¹č), Azerbaijani qılınc, Bashkir ҡылыс (qılıs), Kazakh қылыш (qylyş), Kyrgyz кылыч (kılıc), Turkmen gylyç, Uyghur قىلىچ (qilich) and Uzbek qilich.

Noun

قلج • (kılıc)

1. sword, especially a broad one

   Synonyms: سیف (seyf), شمشیر (şimşir)

2. blow from a sword
3. (agriculture) colter of a plough
4. yeoman's fief, of the yearly value of three thousands aspers

Derived terms

• قلج بالغی (kılıc balığı, “swordfish”)
• قلججی (kılıccı, “sword maker”)
• قلجخانه (kılıchane, “manufactory of swords”)
• قلجلو (kılıclı, “equipped with a sword”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kılıç
• → Armenian: խըլըճ (xələč), կըլըջ (kələǰ), ղլիճ (ġlič)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kılıç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2602
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 970
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gladius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 652
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 3743–3744
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kılıç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1470