قالتاق

Ottoman Turkish

قالتاق

Alternative forms

• قلتاق (kaltak), قلتق (kaltak), قلطاق (kaltak)

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. saddle tree, saddle bow, the wooden base on which the rest of the saddle is built

   Synonym: ایر قاشی (eyer kaşı)

2. (derogatory) hussy, strumpet, harlot, prostitute, a sexually promiscuous woman

   Synonym: قانجیق (kancık)

Descendants

• > Turkish: kaltak (inherited)
• → Armenian: խալթախ (xaltʻax)
• → Persian: قلتاق

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaltak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2364
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قلتق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 368b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قالتاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 933
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Astrabes”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 95
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلتق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3744
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaltak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قالتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1420