قولتقلق
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From قولتق (koltuk, “armpit”) + ـلق (-luk).
Noun
[edit]قولتقلق • (koltukluk)
- dress shield, a gusset inserted in a garment, inside the armpit, to prevent the garment's becoming wet or soiled from perspiration
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: koltukluk
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koltukluk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2723
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولتقلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1495