qishlaq
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Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
qishlaq (plural qishlaqs)
- A rural settlement (originally for the winter period) of seminomadic Turkic peoples of Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.
Translations[edit]
a rural settlement of nomadic people
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