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iç oğlan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ic oglan
IPA
5
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A boy servant or page who was taken from Christian parents in the Balkans and converted, according to the devshirme system in the Ottoman Empire, and who worked in the sultan's palace.

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ایچ اوغلانی (iç oğlanı), from ایچ (iç, “interior”) + اوغلان (oğlan, “boy”).

Inflected Forms

iç oğlans (plural)

Questions

What does iç oğlan mean?
A boy servant or page who was taken from Christian parents in the Balkans and converted, according to the devshirme system in the Ottoman Empire, and who worked in the sultan's palace.
Where does iç oğlan come from?
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ایچ اوغلانی (iç oğlanı), from ایچ (iç, “interior”) + اوغلان (oğlan, “boy”).

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