The meaning of Dulkadir is unclear. It was later Arabized or reinterpreted according to folk tradition as Dhu'l-Qadr, which means 'powerful' or 'mighty'.[4] According to the 16th-century German historian
Johannes Leunclavius, Dulkadir was a corruption of the Turkic name Ṭorg̲h̲ud.
Franz Babinger considered it as very probable, as the name was likely derived from some Turkish name, further suggesting that this would also mean the dynasty of Dulkadir is related to the Turkoman tribe of Ṭorg̲h̲ud.[5] On the other hand,
Annemarie von Gabain proposed tulga-dar (
lit.'helmet-bearer') as the original Turkic word it sprang from.[6] According to
TurkologistLouis Bazin, the name may be rooted in the term "dolga," which means "to hurt" or "to agonize". Historian Faruk Sümer suggested that Dulkadir could be the Turkmen pronunciation of the Muslim given name
Abdul Qadir parallel to how the
Ilkhanate ruler
Abu Sa'id (
r. 1316–35) was known as "Busad" by his Turkmen subjects. Another historian Refet Yinanç supported Sümer's view.[7]
Medieval
Armenian authors referred to the Dulkadirids as Tulgharts'i, Tulgharats'i, Dulgharats'i, Tulghatarts'i, or Dulghatarts'i.[8] While
Persian sources spelled Dulkadir as Zulkadir,
Arabic sources spelled it as Dulgadir or Tulgadir.
Ottoman sources used a combination of Zulkadir and Dulkadir.[9]
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