kolağası
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish قول اغاسی, equivalent to kol + ağa.
Noun
[edit]kolağası (definite accusative kolağasını, plural kolağaları)
- (military, historical) An adjutant major in the Ottoman armed forces.
References
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 986
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1492
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN