قۇل

Uyghur
Other scripts
Perso-Arabic قۇل‍
Cyrillic қул
Roman ‍qul

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kul (“slave”).

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰞‎ (qul, “slave”), Karakhanid قُلْ‎ (qul, “slave”)[1]; Kazakh құл (qul), Kyrgyz кул (kul), Southern Altai кул (kul), Bashkir ҡол (qol), Uzbek qul, Khakas хул (xul), Turkish kul (“slave”), etc.

Noun

قۇل • (qul) (plural قۇللار‎ (qullar))

  1. slave

References
  1. Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969) Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 464
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