агалък
Bulgarian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (ağalık).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editагалъ́к • (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
editDeclension 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
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