قولتقلق

Ottoman Turkish

قولتقلقلر

Etymology

From قولتق (koltuk, “armpit”) +‎ ـلق (-luk).

Noun

قولتقلق • (koltukluk)

1. dress shield, a gusset inserted in a garment, inside the armpit, to prevent the garment's becoming wet or soiled from perspiration

Descendants

• Turkish: koltukluk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koltukluk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2723
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولتقلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1495