قولتق
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]A development of Proto-Turkic *kol (“upper arm”), whence also Ottoman Turkish قول (qol, “arm, sleeve, branch”); cognate with Azerbaijani qoltuq, Bashkir ҡултыҡ (qultıq), Kazakh қолтық (qoltyq), Turkmen goltuk and Uzbek qo'ltiq.
Noun
[edit]قولتق • (koltuk)
- armpit, the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder
- (figuratively) out of the way place, nook, middle of nowhere
- armchair, a chair with supports for the arms or elbows
Derived terms
[edit]- قولتق دگنكی (koltuk değeneği, “crutch”)
- قولتقجی (koltukcu, “hawker, peddlar”)
- قولتقلامق (koltuklamak, “to support”)
- قولتقلانمق (koltuklanmak, “to become supported”)
- قولتقلق (koltukluk, “dress shield”)
- قولتقلو (koltuklu, “provided with a seat”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: koltuk
- → Albanian: kolltuk
- → Armenian: խոլթուխ (xoltʻux), կոլթուխ (koltʻux)
- → Laz: კოლთუღი (ǩoltuği), ქოლთუღი (koltuği) — Batumi
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koltuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2722
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قولتق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 377a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولتق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 988
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Axilla”, 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[3], Vienna, column 111
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قولتق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3804
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “koltuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولتق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1494