قیتلق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قطلق (kıtlık)

Etymology

From قیت (kıt) +‎ ـلق (-lık).

Noun

قیتلق • (kıtlık)

1. scarcity (especially scarcity of produce)

   Synonym: قلت (kıllet)

2. famine

Descendants

• Turkish: kıtlık
• → Armenian: խըթլըխ (xətʻləx), կըթլըղ (kətʻləġ)
• → Zazaki: qıtlıq

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیتلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1504