كولخان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كلخان (külhan)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian گلخان (gulxân, “backroom”), a compound of گل (gul, “back”) + خان (xân, “place, house”).

Noun

كولخان • (külhan)

1. the furnace located in a service room behind the walls, used to heat water which was then delivered to the steam room

   Synonym: تون (tun)

Derived terms

• كولخانجی (külhancı, “stoker in a hammam”)
• كولخانی (külhanî, “young vagrant, street Arab”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: külhan
• → Armenian: քիւլան (kʻiwlan), քիւլհան (kʻiwlhan)
• → Romanian: chiolhan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “külhan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2889
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كلخان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 394a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كولخان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1058
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fornax balnei”, 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 604
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كلخان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3996
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “külhan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كولخان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1600