آرقه‌لق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آرقه (arka, “back”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, luk).

Noun

آرقه‌لق • (arkalık)

1. backrest, the back piece of a chair, armchair or sofa
2. arkhalig, a long, tight-waist jacket worn in Caucasus and Iran

Descendants

• Turkish: arkalık
• → Armenian: արխալուղ (arxaluġ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “arkalık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 293
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرقه‌لق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 14
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرقه‌لق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 71