kulaç

See also: kulać

Albanian

Etymology

From a South Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian kolač (“type of cake or pastry”), Macedonian колач (kolač), Bulgarian колач (kolač).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuˈlat͡ʃ]

Noun

kulaç m (plural kuleç, definite kulaçi, definite plural kuleçtë)

1. a type of round, unleavened bread; any round bread
2. (ethnographic) wheat bread given to children on the night before Christmas supper
3. cloth used for head-carrying

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kulaç	kulaçi	kuleç	kuleçtë
accusative		kulaçin
dative	kulaçi	kulaçit	kuleçve	kuleçve
ablative			kuleçsh

Declension of kulaç

Synonyms

• bukë
• kolendër
• simite

References

1. Omari, Anila (2012) “kulaç”, in Marrëdhëniet Gjuhësore Shqiptaro-Serbe, Tirana, Albania: Krishtalina KH, pages 174-175

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈɫat͡ʃ/
• Hyphenation: ku‧laç

Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قولاچ (ḳulaç)^[1] or قولاج (ḳulac),^[2][3] from Proto-Turkic *kulač.^[4][5][6] Although Kashgari puts the origin as *kol (“arm”) +‎ *ač- (“to open, to spread”),^[7] Clauson finds this impossible.^[4]

Cognates

• Azerbaijani qolac
• Chuvash хăлаç (hălaç)
• Kalmyk кулаш (kulaş)
• Karaim кулач
• Karakhanid قُلَجْ (qulač, qolač)
• Kazakh кулаш (kulaş)
• Khakas хулас (xulas)
• Kyrgyz кулач (kulac)
• Shor кулаш
• Southern Altai кулаш (kulaš)
• Tatar колач (qolaç), qolaç
• Turkmen gulaç
• Tuvan кулаш (kulaş)
• Uyghur غۇلاچ (ghulach)
• Uzbek quloch

Noun

kulaç (definite accusative kulacı, plural kulaçlar)

1. distance between the fingertips of two outstretched arms; fathom, armspan

Derived terms

• kulaç atmak
• kulaçlamak

 

Etymology 2

From Bulgarian колач (kolač).

Alternative forms

• kolaç

Noun

kulaç (definite accusative kulacı, plural kulaçlar)

1. (regional) small leavened or unleavened bread

Derived terms

• kulaç böreği

 

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	kulaç
Definite accusative	kulacı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kulaç	kulaçlar
Definite accusative	kulacı	kulaçları
Dative	kulaca	kulaçlara
Locative	kulaçta	kulaçlarda
Ablative	kulaçtan	kulaçlardan
Genitive	kulacın	kulaçların

See also

• arşın
• dirhem
• karış
• okka

 

References

1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولاچ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1493
2. Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولاج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 986
3. Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “قولاج”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1107
4. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kulaç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 618
5. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kula-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
6. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kulaç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
7. al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943

Further reading

• “kulaç”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kulaç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2825