آرقه‌لق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آرقه (arka, “back”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, luk).

Noun

آرقه‌لق • (arkalık)

backrest, the back piece of a chair, armchair or sofa
arkhalig, a long, tight-waist jacket worn in Caucasus and Iran

Descendants

Turkish: arkalık
→ Armenian: արխալուղ (arxaluġ)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “arkalık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 293
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرقه‌لق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 14
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرقه‌لق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 71

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