بوتلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بوت (but, “thigh”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, luk).

Noun

بوتلق • (butluk)

1. short breeches that only reach to the top of the knee
2. thighplate, an armour piece covering the thigh

Descendants

• Turkish: butluk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “butluk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 710
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوتلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 280
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوتلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 391