قالتاق

Ottoman Turkish edit

قالتاق

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kaltak (“saddle tree; cuckold”),^[1] perhaps deriving from *Kạl(ï)- (“to rise, jump up”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qaltaq.

قالتاق • (kaltak) (definite accusative قالتاغی (kaltağı), plural قالتاقلر (kaltaklar))

saddle tree, saddle bow, the wooden base on which the rest of the saddle is built
Synonym: ایر قاشی (eyer kaşı)
(derogatory) hussy, strumpet, harlot, prostitute, a sexually promiscuous woman
Synonym: قانجیق (kancık)

^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kaltuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 619

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