قولاق

Khalaj

Noun

قوُلاق (qulaq) (definite accusative قوُلاقؽ, plural قوُلاقلار)

1. Arabic spelling of qulaq (“ear”)

Declension

Declension of قولاق

	singular	plural
nominative	قولاق	قولاقلار
genitive	قولاقؽݧ	قولاقلارؽݧ
dative	قولاققا	قولاقلارقا
definite accusative	قولاقؽ	قولاقلارؽ
locative	قولاقچا	قولاقلارچا
ablative	قولاقدا	قولاقلاردا
instrumental	قولاقلا	قولاقلارلا
equative	قولاقوارا	قولاقلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

قولاق

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قلاق (qulaq, “ear”), from Proto-Turkic *kulkak (“ear”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰸𐰆𐰞𐰴𐰴 (qulqaq), Azerbaijani qulaq, Bashkir ҡолаҡ (qolaq), Chuvash хӑлха (hălh̬a), Kazakh құлақ (qūlaq), Kyrgyz кулак (kulak), Turkmen gulak, Uyghur قۇلاق (qulaq), Uzbek quloq and Yakut кулгаах (kulgaaq).

Noun

قولاق • (kulak) (definite accusative قولاغی (kulağı), plural قولاقلر (kulaklar))

1. ear, the organ that enables hearing and body balance using the vestibular system

   Synonyms: اذن (üzn), گوش (güş)

2. ear, that which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal, like a lug or a handle

   Synonym: اذن (üzn)

3. (by extension) hearing, the sense used to perceive sound through an organ, such as the ear

   Synonym: استماع (istimaʼ)

Derived terms

• آیی قولاغی (ayı kulağı, “bear's ear, auricula”)
• اشك قولاغی (eşek kulağı, “centaury”)
• بالق قولاغی (balık kulağı, “mussel shell”)
• طاوشان قولاغی (tavşan kulağı, “sowbread”)
• فاره قولاغی (fare kulağı, “sweet marjoram”)
• قوزی قولاغی (kuzı kulağı, “red sorrel”)
• قولاغنه سویلمك (kulağına söylemek, “to whisper”)
• قولاغنه صوقمق (kulağına sokmak, “to push or force into one's ear”)
• قولاغه قاچان (kulağa kaçan, “earwig”)
• قولاغی دلیك (kulağı delik, “whose ear is open”)
• قولاق آصمق (kulak asmak, “to lend ear, listen”)
• قولاق اوتی (kulak otu, “houseleek”)
• قولاق اورمق (kulak urmak, “to listen”)
• قولاق اوغلدیسی (kulak uğuldusu, “booming in the ear”)
• قولاق بتی (kulak biti, “earwig”)
• قولاق توزی (kulak tözü, “rear of the ear”)
• قولاق طوتمق (kulak tutmak, “to listen carefully”)
• قولاق طولدرمق (kulak doldurmak, “to fill the ear”)
• قولاق قبارتمق (kulak kabartmak, “to prick up one's ears”)
• قولاق یومشاغی (kulak yumşağı, “lobe of the ear”)
• قولاقسز (kulaksız, “earless”)
• قولاقلاشمق (kulaklaşmak, “to whisper together”)
• قولاقلق (kulaklık, “small slip of paper”)
• قولاقلو (kulaklı, “eared, possessed of ears”)
• قولاقچین (kulakçin, “appendage to a cap”)
• یلپازه قولاق (yelpaze kulak, “very large ear”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: kulak
• Turkish: kulak
• → Armenian: խուլախ (xulax)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kulak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2826
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قولاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 376a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 987
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Auris”, 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 107
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قولاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3802
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kulak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1493

Etymology 2

From قول (kol, “arm”) +‎ ـاق (-ak, noun and adjective diminutive suffix).

Adjective

قولاق • (kolak)

1. one-armed, armless, arm-crippled, having lost one or both arms

   Synonym: چولاق (çolak)

2. one-handed, handless, hand-crippled, having lost one or both hands

   Synonym: چولاق (çolak)

Descendants

• Turkish: kolak

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kolak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2715
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[6], Constantinople: Mihran, page 987
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mancus”, 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^[7], Vienna, column 998
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قولاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 3802
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1493