قارلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قار (kar, “snow”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk).

Noun

قارلق • (karlık)

1. snowpit, a pit dug in deep snow in order to preserve goods during the summer
2. cooler, any container or vessel used to cool water by means of snow

Descendants

• Turkish: karlık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karlık1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2441
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 925b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nivarium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1141
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قارلق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3580
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1414