suffix to hard-lettered words, to form substantives. 1. Added to an adjective it forms its abstract substantive; as, قزللق redness. 2. Added to a substantive, it forms an abstract substantive of its nature, quality, avocation, art, functions or special act; as, قلجلق the nature, functions, etc., of a sword. 3. Joined to some substantives, it expresses a place special to the thing named, or a place where it abounds; پاپوشلق the place where slippers are left; اغاجلق a place where trees abound. 4. Joined to some substantives, it denotes a quantity sufficient for the thing or things named by the original substantive; as, بر پانتالونلق چوقە cloth sufficient for one pair of trowsers; یكرمی آدملق یمك food sufficient for twenty men. Similarly, with names of money, it signifies the quantity the coin will purchase; اون پارەلق الما ten paras’ worth of apples. With nouns of time it gives a measure proportioned to the time; as, بر آیلق یول a distance of a month’s travel. With nouns of number, it forms names of coins; as, اونلق a coin of ten (units). 5. When money is the subject of conversation, the word in لق indicates what the money is for; as آیلق monthly pay, خرجلق pocket-money. 6. Added to an infinitive, it forms its abstract noun; as, باقمقلق the act or condition of looking.

Old or provincial orthography of the suffix لق, q. v.