coolie (Asian manual worker) · coolie (person of Indian or Indonesian background) · coolie (Indian Surinamese person, a Surinamese person of Indian descent)
köken: Ateji (当(あ)て字(じ)) borrowed from phono-semantic matching of Mandarin 苦力 (kǔlì)., possibly a phono-semantic matching of Hindi क़ुली (qulī) or its cognates.
köken: From the possessed form of Old Anatolian Turkish قل (“slave”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kul; used in several names of the Qutb Shahi sultans.
köken: From Malay kuli, from Hindi क़ुली (qulī), from Chagatai قل (qul), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kul (“slave, servant”). Other forms occur in Bengali কুলি (kuli) and Tamil கூலி (kūli, “daily hire”), which are possibly also influenced by Hindi कोली (kolī, “weaver; low-class”). The Chinese word 苦力 (kǔlì), meaning "to exert one's abilities; heavy labour work" in Classical Chinese, may have been…
köken: From the possessed form of Old Anatolian Turkish قل (“slave”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kul; used in several names of the Qutb Shahi sultans.