اولاق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ulaġ (“messenger”), a development of *ula- (“to extend, prolong; to attach, join (ends)”), whence اولامق (ulamak, “to attach, join”).

Noun

اولاق • (ulak)

1. courier, messenger, a person who delivers messages

   Synonym: چاپار (çapar)

Derived terms

• اولاقلق (ulaklık, “the quality and duty of a courier”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ulak
• → Romanian: olac

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ulak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4976
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اولاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 85a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اولاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 199
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cursor”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 315
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اولاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 540
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ulak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اولاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 265