كوله

From Proto-Turkic *kȫle.

كوله • (köle) (definite accusative كوله‌یی (köleyi), plural كوله‌لر (köleler))

1. male slave

• كوله‌لك (kölelik, “slavery”)

• Turkish: köle
• → Armenian: քէօլէ (kʻēōlē)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1059

From Georgian კოლა (ḳola). The town was previously known as مرده‌نیك (Merdenik).

گوله • (Göle)

1. Göle (a town and district of Ardahan Province, Turkey)

   Synonym: مرده‌نیك (Merdenik) (obsolete)

• Turkish: Göle
• → Greek: Γκιόλε (Gkióle)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Göle”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Göle”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 299

گوله • (gülle)

1. alternative spelling of گله (gülle)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1601