سلاملق

Ottoman Turkish

سلاملق

Etymology

From سلام (selam, “greeting; peace, concord”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk).

Noun

سلاملق • (selamlık)

1. selamlik, a room set apart for business or the reception of male guests
2. (by extension) the whole suite of rooms open to male servants and visitors
3. (Islam) the public procession of the Sultan to the mosque at noon on Friday

Descendants

• Turkish: selamlık
• → Armenian: սէլամլըխ (sēlamləx)
• → English: selamlik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “selamlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4130
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سلاملق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 688
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Triclinium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1694
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سلاملق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2652
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سلاملق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1071