قولتق

Ottoman Turkish

قولتق

Etymology

A development of Proto-Turkic *kol (“upper arm”), whence also Ottoman Turkish قول (qol, “arm, sleeve, branch”); cognate with Azerbaijani qoltuq, Bashkir ҡултыҡ (qultıq), Kazakh қолтық (qoltyq), Turkmen goltuk and Uzbek qo'ltiq.

Noun

قولتق • (koltuk)

1. armpit, the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder

   Synonyms: ابط (ibt), بغل (bağal), كش (keş)

2. (figuratively) out of the way place, nook, middle of nowhere
3. armchair, a chair with supports for the arms or elbows

Derived terms

• قولتق دگنكی (koltuk değeneği, “crutch”)
• قولتقجی (koltukcu, “hawker, peddlar”)
• قولتقلامق (koltuklamak, “to support”)
• قولتقلانمق (koltuklanmak, “to become supported”)
• قولتقلق (koltukluk, “dress shield”)
• قولتقلو (koltuklu, “provided with a seat”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: koltuk
• → Albanian: kolltuk
• → Armenian: խոլթուխ (xoltʻux), կոլթուխ (koltʻux)
• → Laz: კოლთუღი (ǩoltuği), ქოლთუღი (koltuği) — Batumi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koltuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2722
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قولتق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 377a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولتق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 988
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Axilla”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 111
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قولتق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3804
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “koltuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولتق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1494