بوتلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بوت (but, “thigh”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, luk).

Noun

بوتلق • (butluk)

short breeches that only reach to the top of the knee
thighplate, an armour piece covering the thigh

Descendants

Turkish: butluk

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “butluk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 710
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوتلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 280
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوتلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 391

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