حماللق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From حمال (hamal, “porter, carrier”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk, “-ness”).

Noun

حماللق • (hamallık) (definite accusative حماللغی (hamallığı), plural حماللقلر (hamallıklar))

1. portage, porterage, the carrying or transportation of goods by a porter, or carrier, or other person
2. (figuratively) donkey work, grunt work, work that is considered heavy, difficult, boring, and routine

Descendants

• Turkish: hamallık
• → Albanian: hamallëk

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “حمال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 667
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hamallık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1856
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حماللق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 518
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حماللق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 804