قیتلق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

قطلق (kıtlık)

Etymology

From قیت (kıt) +‎ ـلق (-lık).

Noun

قیتلق • (kıtlık)

scarcity (especially scarcity of produce)
famine

Descendants

Turkish: kıtlık
→ Armenian: խըթլըխ (xətʻləx), կըթլըղ (kətʻləġ)
→ Zazaki: qıtlıq

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیتلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1504

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