قالتاق
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Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kaltak (“saddle tree; cuckold”),[1] perhaps deriving from *Kạl(ï)- (“to rise, jump up”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qaltaq.
Noun
[edit]قالتاق • (kaltak) (definite accusative قالتاغی (kaltağı), plural قالتاقلر (kaltaklar))
- saddle tree, saddle bow, the wooden base on which the rest of the saddle is built
- Synonym: ایر قاشی (eyer kaşı)
- (derogatory) hussy, strumpet, harlot, prostitute, a sexually promiscuous woman
- Synonym: قانجیق (kancık)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kaltuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 619
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaltak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2364
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قلتق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 368b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قالتاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 933
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Astrabes”, 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 95
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلتق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3744
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaltak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قالتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1420