قالتاق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- قلتاق (kaltak), قلتق (kaltak), قلطاق (kaltak)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kaltak (“saddle tree; cuckold”),[1] perhaps deriving from *Kal(ï)- (“to rise, jump up”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qaltaq.
Noun
قالتاق • (kaltak) (definite accusative قالتاغی (kaltağı), plural قالتاقلر (kaltaklar))
- saddle tree, saddle bow, the wooden base on which the rest of the saddle is built
- Synonym: ایر قاشی (eyer kaşı)
- (derogatory) hussy, strumpet, harlot, prostitute, a sexually promiscuous woman
Descendants
- > Turkish: kaltak (inherited)
- → Armenian: խալթախ (xaltʻax)
- → Persian: قلتاق
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kaltuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 619
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaltak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2364
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قلتق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 368b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قالتاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 933
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Astrabes”, 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 95
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلتق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3744
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaltak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قالتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1420