قالابالق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• غلبه‌لك (ğalebelik)

Etymology

From Arabic غَلَبَة (ḡalaba) +‎ ـلق (-lık).

Adjective

قالابالق • (kalabalık)

1. crowded

Noun

قالابالق • (kalabalık)

1. crowd
2. confused mass
3. one's personal or household belongings collectively

Descendants

• Turkish: kalabalık
• → Armenian: խալապալըխ (xalapaləx), կալաբալաղ (kalabalaġ), կալաբալըղ (kalabaləġ)
• → Macedonian: калабалак (kalabalak)
• → Romanian: calabalâc
• → Swedish: kalabalik
  • → Finnish: kalabaliikki

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kalabalık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غلبه‌لك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1348