اولق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ulag, from Proto-Turkic *ula-. See اُولَمَقْ (ulamaq) for more.

Noun

اُولَقْ (ulaq)

1. messenger, courier, a person who delivers news
2. delegate

Descendants

• Ottoman Turkish: اولاق (ulak)
  • Turkish: ulak
  • → Romanian: olac

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *oluk (“hollowed-out tree”).

Noun

اُولُقْ (oluq)

1. gutter

Descendants

• Ottoman Turkish: اولق (oluk), الوق (oluk), اولوق (oluk)
  • Turkish: oluk
  • → Albanian: ulluk
  • → Armenian: օլուխ (ōlux)
  • → Bulgarian: олу́к (olúk)
  • → Greek: λούκι (loúki)
  • → Macedonian: олук (oluk)
  • → Romanian: oluc, uluc
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̀лук

    Latin script: òluk

Further reading

• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 139

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• الوق (oluk), اولوق (oluk)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اُولُقْ (oluq), 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
• → Armenian: օլուխ (ōlux)
• → 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^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 86a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اولق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, column 543
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oluk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اولق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 269