Armenian

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish كوله (köle).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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քէօլէ (kʻēōlē) (Istanbul, traditional orthography)

  1. slave
    Synonym: ստրուկ (struk)

Further reading

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “քէօլէ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages