alacık

Turkish

Alternative forms

alacuk, alaçu, alaçuk

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آلاچق (alaçık, alaçak, “yurt, nomad's tent”), 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

alacık (definite accusative alacığı, plural alacıklar)

nomadic tent made of felt, like a yurt or ger
Near-synonym: yurt
hut or shelter made of twigs and branches
Synonym: çardak

Declension

Declension of *alacık*
	singular	plural
nominative	alacık	alacıklar
definite accusative	alacığı	alacıkları
dative	alacığa	alacıklara
locative	alacıkta	alacıklarda
ablative	alacıktan	alacıklardan
genitive	alacığın	alacıkların

References

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

Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “alacık”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “alacık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 168
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “alacık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

[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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