اوطه‌لق

Ottoman Turkish
اوطه‌لق

Alternative forms

Etymology

From اوطه (oda, “room, chamber”) +‎ لق (lık).

Noun

اوطه‌لق • (odalık)

  1. handmaid, chambermaid
  2. woman, baggage (like German Frauenzimmer)
  3. odalisque, a female slave adduced by her owner as a concubine

Descendants
  • Turkish: odalık
  • → Armenian: օտալըխ (ōtaləx)
  • → French: odalisque
    • → Catalan: odalisca
    • → Dutch: odalisk
    • → English: odalisque
    • → German: Odaliske
    • → Icelandic: ódalíska
    • → Italian: odalisca
    • → Portuguese: odalisca
    • → Russian: одали́ска (odalíska)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: одалиска (odaliska)
    • → Spanish: odalisca
  • → Greek: οδαλίσκη (odalíski)

References
  • Braun-Wiesbaden, Karl (1876) Eine türkische Reise (in German), volume 2, Stuttgart: Verlag von August Auerbach, page 85
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوطه‌لق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 256
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “اوطه‌لق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 115
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