آوجیلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آوجی (avcı, “hunter”) +‎ ـلق (-lık).

Noun

آوجیلق • (avcılık)

the state or condition of being a hunter

Descendants

Turkish: avcılık
→ Bulgarian: авджилъ́к (avdžilǎ́k)
→ Serbo-Croatian: авџилук／avdžiluk

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آوجیلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 40
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آوجیلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 239

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