क़ुली

Hindi edit

Etymology edit

From the possessed form of Old Anatolian Turkish قل (“slave”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kul;^[1] used in several names of the Qutb Shahi sultans.

Pronunciation edit

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /qʊ.liː/, /kʊ.liː/

Noun edit

क़ुली • (qulī) m (Urdu spelling قلی)

slave; servant
Synonyms: ग़ुलाम (ġulām), दास (dās)
porter
(historical) coolie; migrant labourer

Declension edit

Declension of क़ुली (masc ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	क़ुली qulī	क़ुली qulī
oblique	क़ुली qulī	क़ुलियों quliyõ
vocative	क़ुली qulī	क़ुलियो quliyo

Descendants edit

→ Burmese: ကူလီ (kuli)
→ Bengali: কুলি (kuli)
>? Chinese: 苦力 (kǔlì)
→ English: coolie, cooly
→ Malay: kuli
- Indonesian: kuli
→ Telugu: కూలీ (kūlī)
→ Thai: กุลี (gù-lii)

References edit

^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kul”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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