اسیرلك

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

اسیر (esir, yesir, “captive, slave”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, noun-forming suffix)

Noun edit

اسیرلك • (esirlik or yesirlik)

captivity as a prisoner of war
slavery

References edit

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسیرلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116

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