اوطه‌لق

Ottoman Turkish

اوطه‌لق

Alternative forms

• اوده‌لق (odalık)

Etymology

From اوطه (oda, “room, chamber”) +‎ ـلق (-lık).

Noun

اوطه‌لق • (odalık)

1. handmaid, chambermaid
2. woman, baggage (like German Frauenzimmer)
3. odalisque, a female slave adduced by her owner as a concubine

Descendants

• Turkish: odalık
• → Armenian: օտալըխ (ōtaləx)
• → French: odalisque
  • → Catalan: odalisca
  • → Dutch: odalisk
  • → English: odalisque
  • → German: Odaliske
    • → Hungarian: odaliszk
  • → Icelandic: ódalíska
  • → Italian: odalisca
  • → Portuguese: odalisca
  • → Russian: одали́ска (odalíska)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: одалиска (odaliska)
  • → Spanish: odalisca
• → Greek: οδαλίσκη (odalíski)

References

• Braun-Wiesbaden, Karl (1876) Eine türkische Reise (in German), volume 2, Stuttgart: Verlag von August Auerbach, page 85
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “اوطه‌لق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 115