چاپارلق
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From چاپار (çapar, “mounted courier, messenger”) + ـلق (-lık).
Noun
[edit]چاپارلق • (çaparlık)
- the quality or act of what run, trots, or gallops
- the quality, act, or remuneration of a Persian mounted courier
References
[edit]- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاپارلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 698