# آرالق
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

From آرَا (ara).

### Noun

آرَالُقْ (araluq)
* gap, room, space, interval

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: aralıq
* Gagauz: aralık
* Ottoman Turkish: آرالق (aralık)
** Turkish: aralık
** → Armenian: արալըխ (araləx), արալըղ (araləġ)
** → Greek: αραλίκι (aralíki)
** → Laz: არალუღი (araluği)
** → Serbo-Croatian: aràluk / ара̀лук

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aralık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آرَالُقْ (araluq, “gap, space, interval”); cognate with Azerbaijani aralıq and Gagauz aralık. Equivalent to آرا (ara, “gap, space, interval”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk, “-ness, -hood”).

### Noun

آرالق • (aralık) (definite accusative آرالغی (aralığı), plural آرالقلر (aralıklar))
* space of place, gap, opening, room between two or more things, an interval between two or more points
    Synonyms: آرا (ara), بوشلق (boşluk), خلال (hilal), مابین (mabeyin), مسافه (mesafe)
* space of time, an interval or pause between two or more events, a length of time marked off by two instants
    Synonyms: آرا (ara), فاصله (fasıla), وقت (vakt)
* chink, crevice, fissure, crack, any long, narrow opening made by breaking or splitting, as in a rock or in a wall
    Synonyms: چاتلاق (çatlak), یارق (yarık)
* blank, void, an empty or vacant space, especially one in a writing or on a piece of paper which one must fill in
* interruption, hiatus, recess, break, moratorium, a temporary stoppage of an activity, a cessation of something
    Synonym: تنفس (teneffüs)
* corridor, hallway, passageway, gangway, a narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building
    Synonyms: دهلیز (dehliz), قوریدور (koridor)
* December, the twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding January
    Synonym: كانون اول (kanun-ı evvel)

#### Derived terms

* آرالق آرالق (aralık aralık, “from time to time”)
* آرالق ویرمك (aralık vermek, “to interrupt”)
* آرالقده (aralıkda, “sometimes, often”)
* اول آرالق (ol aralık, “at that time, then”)
* بر آرالق (bir aralık, “once upon a time”)
* بو آرالق (bu aralık, “at this time, then”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: aralık
* → Armenian: արալըխ (araləx), արալըղ (araləġ)
* → Greek: αραλίκι (aralíki)
* → Laz: არალუღი (araluği)
* → Serbo-Croatian: aràluk / ара̀лук

### Proper noun

آرالق • (aralık)
* Aralık (a town and district in Iğdır province, Turkey)
    Synonym: باشكند (başkend) (historical)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: Aralık

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آرا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 29
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aralık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 277
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آرالق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 20a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرالق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 12
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intervallum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 852
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آرالق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 128
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Aralık”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرالق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 58
* Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Aralık”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 43