قوللق

Ottoman Turkish

قوللق

Alternative forms

• قوللوق (kulluk)

Etymology

From قول (kul, “servant”) +‎ ـلق (-luk).

Noun

قوللق • (kulluk)

1. servanthood, service, serving
   1. work owed by a villein or serf to his feudal lord, corvée
   2. official patrols to ensure security and order in the streets (in Istanbul performed by janissary orders)

Derived terms

• قوللقچی (kullukçı, “servant”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kulluk
• → Aromanian: culuche (corvée; drudgery; patrol)
• → Albanian: kulluk
• → Bulgarian: кулу́к (kulúk, “corvée”)
• → Macedonian: кулук (kuluk, “corvée”)
• → Romanian: culuc (“patrol”)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (“corvée; drudgery”)

  Cyrillic script: ку̀лук

  Latin script: kùluk

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوللق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3805
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “389. CULUЌE”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот‎^[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 103