karavaş

Meaning

  1. (historical) female slave
  2. concubine

Concepts

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قراواش (karavaş), from Old Anatolian Turkish قَرَوَاشْ (qaravaş), from Proto-Turkic *kara baĺč. Morphologically kara + baş. Compare Azerbaijani qarabaş.

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