آلاچق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *alāču (“tent, hut”)[1], a word which usually have final -k in a lot of later forms.

Cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani alaçıq, Bashkir аласыҡ (alasıq), Chagatai الاچوق (alačuq), Chuvash лаҫӑ (laś̬ă), Kazakh лашық (laşyq), Kumyk алачыкъ (alaçıq), Kyrgyz алачык (alacık), Southern Altai аланчык (alančïk), Tatar алачык (alaçıq), Tuvan алажы (alajı) and Uzbek olachiq

Noun

آلاچق • (alaçık or alaçak) (definite accusative آلاچغی (alaçığı, alaçağı), plural آلاچقلر (alaçıklar, alaçaklar))

  1. yurt, especially one made of striped felt and used by nomadic tribes

Descendants

  • Turkish: alacık

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ala:çu”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 129

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