چولاق

Khalaj

Noun

چولاق (çolaq) (definite accusative چوْلاقؽ, plural چوْلاقلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of çolaq (cripple)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čol- (crippled; to deteriorate, dwindle; defect; short-statured). Cognate with Kyrgyz чолок (colok), Kazakh шолақ (şolaq), Uyghur چولاق (cholaq).

Adjective

چولاق • (çolak)

  1. one-armed, one-handed
  2. crippled (in the hand or arm)

Noun

چولاق • (çolak)

  1. one-armed or a one-handed person
  2. someone who is maimed or paralyzed in one arm or hand

Descendants

  • Turkish: çolak
  • Armenian: չոլախ (čʻolax), Չոլաքյան (Čʻolakʻyan)
  • Greek: τσολάκης (tsolákis), Τσολάκης (Tsolákis)
  • Romanian: ciolac, Ciolacu

References

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *čoluk or *čolok,[1] from *čol-[2] Cognates with Turkish çolak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃolɑq/

Adjective

چولاق • (cholaq)

  1. missing an arm or hand
  2. deformed, crippled, maimed
  3. (of furniture) missing a leg

References

  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “çoluk (çolok)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 419
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čol-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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