агалък
Bulgarian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (ağalık).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
агалъ́к • (agalǎ́k) m (historical or colloquial)
- the status or being of an agha
- lordship, dominion, power
- Synonyms: господару́ване (gospodarúvane), запове́дничество (zapovédničestvo), охо́лство (ohólstvo)
- (collective) the Turks; all Turkish people
- 1886?, Lyuben Karavelov, Съчинения, volume 2, page 135:
- Агалъкът не е малка сила, мои братя.
- Agalǎkǎt ne e malka sila, moi bratja.
- The Turks are not a small force, my brothers.
Declension edit
Declension of агалъ́к
See also edit
- агарлъ́к (agarlǎ́k, “brideprice”)
References edit
- “агалък”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “агалък”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- “агалък”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 18