qishlaq

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Etymology

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Borrowed from a Turkic source. Cognates include Turkish kışlık, (colloquial) kışlak, kışla (barracks), Azerbaijani qışlaq, Uyghur قىشلاق (qishlaq), Karakhanid قِشْلاغْ (qıšlaɣ), Old Turkic 𐰴𐰃𐰽𐰞𐰍 (qis¹l¹ǧ) and Yakut кыстык (kıstık).

Noun

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qishlaq (plural qishlaqs)

  1. A rural settlement (originally for the winter period) of seminomadic Turkic peoples of Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.

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