آیلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

آی (ay, “month”) +‎ لق (-lık, noun forming suffix)

Adjective

آیلق • (aylık)

1. a month old
2. a month long

Noun

آیلق • (aylık)

1. monthly pay
2. menses, period

Descendants

• Turkish: aylık
• → Armenian: այլըխ (ayləx)
• → Bulgarian: айлъ́к (ajlǎ́k)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: а̀јлук

  Latin script: àjluk

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آیلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 305