اوطهلق
Ottoman Turkish
editAlternative forms
edit- اودهلق (odalık)
Etymology
editFrom اوطه (oda, “room, chamber”) + لق (lık).
Noun
editاوطهلق • (odalık)
- handmaid, chambermaid
- woman, baggage (like German Frauenzimmer)
- odalisque, a female slave adduced by her owner as a concubine
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Braun-Wiesbaden, Karl (1876) Eine türkische Reise (in German), volume 2, Stuttgart: Verlag von August Auerbach, page 85
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوطهلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 256
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “اوطهلق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 115