قولتقلق
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From قولتق (koltuk, “armpit”) + ـلق (-luk).
Noun edit
قولتقلق • (koltukluk)
- dress shield, a gusset inserted in a garment, inside the armpit, to prevent the garment's becoming wet or soiled from perspiration
Descendants edit
- Turkish: koltukluk
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koltukluk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2723
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولتقلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1495