بیراقلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بیراق (bayrak, “flag”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk).

Noun

بیراقلق • (bayraklık)

bunting, a thin cloth from which flags are made
the quantity of bunting sufficient for a flag
the number of militiamen attached to a flag

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیراقلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 419

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