حیدودلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From حیدود (haydud, “brigand, bandit”) +‎ ـلق (-luk, “-ness”).

Noun

حیدودلق • (haydudluk)

1. brigandage, banditry, the criminal lifestyle of a brigand or bandit

Descendants

• Turkish: haydutluk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “haydutluk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1912
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حیدودلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1000
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حیدودلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 815