آرپه‌لق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آرپه (arpa, “barley”) +‎ ـلق (-lık).

Noun

آرپه‌لق • (arpalık)

1. field devoted to or favorable to the growth of barley
2. granary, bin or barn for barley
3. fief formerly bestowed on grandees and afterwards compensated for by a stipend from the government

Descendants

• Turkish: arpalık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “arpalık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 296
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرپه‌لق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 13
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آرپه‌لق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 129–130
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرپه‌لق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 60