قالابالق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- غلبهلك (ğalebelik)
Etymology
From Arabic غَلَبَة (ḡalaba) + ـلق (-lık).
Adjective
قالابالق • (kalabalık)
- crowded
Noun
قالابالق • (kalabalık)
- crowd
- confused mass
- one's personal or household belongings collectively
Descendants
- Turkish: kalabalık
- → Armenian: խալապալըխ (xalapaləx), կալաբալաղ (kalabalaġ), կալաբալըղ (kalabaləġ), ղալաբալաղ (ġalabalaġ)
- → Laz: კააბალუღი (ǩaabaluği)
- → Macedonian: калабалак (kalabalak)
- → Romanian: calabalâc
- → Swedish: kalabalik
- → Finnish: kalabaliikki
- → Norwegian: kalabalikk
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kalabalık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “غلبهلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1348