حیدودلق
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From حیدود (haydud, “brigand, bandit”) + ـلق (-luk, “-ness”).
Noun
حیدودلق • (haydudluk)
- brigandage, banditry, the criminal lifestyle of a brigand or bandit
Descendants
- Turkish: haydutluk
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “haydutluk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1912
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حیدودلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1000
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حیدودلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 815