•concubine (long-term mistress; in historical contexts, especially a slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service)
concubine of a married man, mistress · male prostitute
çekim: çoğul paelicēs · tamlayan paelicis
köken: * Usually compared to Ancient Greek παλλᾰκή (pallăkḗ, “concubine”), but phonological and other uncertainties exist. * The variant pellex shows folk-etymological connection with pelliciō (“to allure”).
concubine, a woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife · synonym of gundik
çekim: çoğul selir-selir
köken: Inherited from Malay selir (“secondary wife of a prince”), from Javanese ꦱꦼꦭꦶꦂ (selir, “minor wife, concubine”), from Old Javanese sĕlir (“select, picked”).