qishlaq

English

Alternative forms

• kishlak

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic source. Cognates include Turkish kışlık, (colloquial) kışlak, kışla (“barracks”), Azerbaijani qışlaq, Uyghur قىشلاق (qishlaq), Karakhanid قِشْلاغْ (qıšlaɣ), Old Turkic 𐰴𐰃𐰽𐰞𐰍 (qis¹l¹ǧ) and Yakut кыстык (kıstık).

Noun

qishlaq (plural qishlaqs)

1. A rural settlement (originally for the winter period) of seminomadic Turkic peoples of Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.

Translations

a rural settlement of nomadic people

• Armenian: ղշլաղ (hy) (ġšlaġ)
• Azerbaijani: qışlaq
• Bashkir: ҡышлау (qışlaw)
• Belarusian: кішла́к m (kišlák)
• Dutch: kisjlak m
• Estonian: kišlakk
• Finnish: kishlak
• French: kichlak m
• Georgian: ყიშლაღი (q̇išlaɣi)
• German: Kischlak m
• Karakalpak: qıshlaw, qıshlaq
• Kazakh: қыстау (qystau), қыстақ (qystaq)
• Kyrgyz: кыштак (ky) (kıştak), кыштоо (kıştoo)
• Persian: قشلاق (fa) (qešlâq)
• Russian: кишла́к (ru) m (kišlák)
• Southern Altai: кыштуу (kïštuu), кыштак (kïštak)
• Tajik: қишлоқ (tg) (qišloq)
• Tatar: кышлау (tt) (qışlaw)
• Turkish: kışlak (tr)
• Turkmen: gyşlag
• Ukrainian: кишла́к (uk) m (kyšlák)
• Uyghur: قىشلاق (qishlaq)
• Uzbek: qishloq (uz)
• Yakut: кыстык (kıstık)