فلقه

See also: فلقة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic فَلَقَة (falaqa, “falaka”), which is ultimately from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “battle-array; round piece of wood”).

Noun

فلقه • (falaka)

1. stout staff with a loop of rope let through two holes, by which the feet of a culprit are held up for the punishment of the bastinado

Descendants

• Turkish: falaka
• → Armenian: ֆալախա (falaxa)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فلقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 909
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فلقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1395