چولاق

Khalaj

Noun

چولاق (çolaq) (definite accusative چوْلاقؽ, plural چوْلاقلار)

1. Arabic spelling of çolaq (“cripple”)

Declension

Declension of چولاق

	singular	plural
nominative	چولاق	چولاقلار
genitive	چولاقؽݧ	چولاقلارؽݧ
dative	چولاققا	چولاقلارقا
definite accusative	چولاقؽ	چولاقلارؽ
locative	چولاقچا	چولاقلارچا
ablative	چولاقدا	چولاقلاردا
instrumental	چولاقلا	چولاقلارلا
equative	چولاقوارا	چولاقلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čoluk or *čolok (“crippled”), a derivation from *čol- (“to deteriorate, dwindle”). Cognate with Azerbaijani çolaq, Kazakh шолақ (şolaq), Khalaj çolaq, Kyrgyz чолок (colok) and Uyghur چولاق (cholaq).

Adjective

چولاق • (çolak)

1. one-armed, armless, arm-crippled, having lost one or both arms

   Synonym: قولاق (kolak)

2. one-handed, handless, hand-crippled, having lost one or both hands

   Synonym: قولاق (kolak)

Noun

چولاق • (çolak) (definite accusative چولاغی (çolağı), plural چولاقلر (çolaklar))

1. one-armed or one-handed person, someone who is maimed or paralyzed in one arm or hand

Derived terms

• چولاقلق (çolaklık, “crippleness”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çolak
• → Armenian: չոլախ (čʻolax), ⇒ Չոլաքյան (Čʻolakʻyan)
• → Greek: τσολάκης (tsolákis), ⇒ Τσολάκης (Tsolákis)
• → Romanian: ciolac, ⇒ Ciolacu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çolak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1029
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چولاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 192a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چولاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mancus”, 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 998
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چولاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1683
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çolak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چولاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739

Uyghur

Etymology

From Chagatai چولاق (čolaq), from Karakhanid چُلَقْ (čolaq), from Proto-Turkic *čoluk or *čolok, from *čol- Cognates with Turkish çolak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃolɑq/

Adjective

چولاق • (cholaq)

1. missing an arm or hand
2. deformed, crippled, maimed
3. (of furniture) missing a leg

Further reading

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN