قالابالق
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- غلبهلك (ğalebelik)
Etymology
[edit]From Arabic غَلَبَة (ḡalaba) + ـلق (-lık).
Adjective
[edit]قالابالق • (kalabalık)
- crowded
Noun
[edit]قالابالق • (kalabalık)
- crowd
- confused mass
- one's personal or household belongings collectively
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kalabalık
- → Armenian: խալապալըխ (xalapaləx), կալաբալաղ (kalabalaġ), կալաբալըղ (kalabaləġ)
- → Macedonian: калабалак (kalabalak)
- → Romanian: calabalâc
- → Swedish: kalabalik
- → Finnish: kalabaliikki
References
[edit]- 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