خاخاملق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From خاخام (haham, “rabbi”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -lik, “-ness, -ship”).

Noun

خاخاملق • (hahamlık)

rabbinate, the office or function of a rabbi

Descendants

Turkish: hahamlık

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hahamlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1837
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خاخاملق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 525

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