اولق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • الوق (oluk), اولوق (oluk)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *oluk (“hollowed-out tree”); cognate with Bashkir улаҡ (ulaq), Nogai олык (olık) and Tatar улак (ulaq).

Noun

اولق • (oluk)

  1. gutter, a channel intended for the drainage of water
    Synonym: ناو (nav)
  2. downspout, a spout by which rain runs from a roof
    Synonym: میزاب (mizab)
  3. carpenter's gouge, a chisel for scooping channels or grooves
    Synonym: اسكنه (iskene)

Derived terms
  • آغاج اولق (ağac oluk, “wooden spout”)
  • آلتون اولق (altun oluk, “gold spout”)
  • اولقلو (oluklu, “channeled”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: oluk
  • → Albanian: ulluk
  • → Bulgarian: олу́к (olúk)
  • → Greek: λούκι (loúki)
  • → Macedonian: олук (oluk)
  • → Romanian: oluc, uluc
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: о̀лук
    Latin script: òluk

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oluk2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3611
  • Eren, Hasan (1999) “oluk”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 306b
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اولق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 86a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اولق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 203
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Canalis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 140
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اولق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 543
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oluk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اولق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 269
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