اوطه‌لق

Ottoman Turkish

اوطه‌لق

Alternative forms

اوده‌لق‎ (odalık)

Etymology

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

Noun

اوطه‌لق • (odalık)

handmaid, chambermaid
woman, baggage (like German Frauenzimmer)
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
  - → Hungarian: odaliszk
- → 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
Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “اوطه‌لق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 115

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