Qul (Turkic)

Qul (Azerbaijani: qul; Kazakh: құл, romanizedqūl; Kyrgyz: кул, romanizedkul; Tatar: кол, romanized: qol; Turkish: kul; Turkmen: gul; Uzbek: қул, romanized: qul) is a word of Turkic origin meaning 'slave'.

Uses of the word

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In Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Iran and South Asia

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In Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Iran and South Asia, the word qul has been used as the second part of several Muslim male given names, where it is used with the possessive in Azerbaijani (qulu), Tatar (колый qolıy), Turkmen (guly) and Uzbek (quli), and has been borrowed as قلی (qoli) in Persian and قلی (qulī) in Urdu.

List of given names derived from qul
List of surnames derived from qul

In the Ottoman Empire

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In the Ottoman Empire, the word qul was used in rank names of the Janissaries such as kapıkulu and kul kethüdâsı.[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Kul". TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish).

Further reading

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