kishlak

{{Short description|Winter pasture}}

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File:PG Kishlak (Samarkand, Turkestan).jpg of early 1900s]]

Kishlak or qishlaq ({{langx|uz|qishloq}}, {{langx|tk|gyşlag}}, {{langx|tr|kışlak}}, {{langx|az|qışlaq}}, {{langx|fa|قشلاق}}), or qıştaq ({{langx|ky|кыштак}}) qıstaw ({{langx|kk|қыстау}}) is a rural settlement of semi-nomadic Turkic peoples of Central Asia and Azerbaijan. The meaning of the term is "wintering place" in Turkic languages (derives from Turkic qış - winter).[http://www.bookrags.com/research/kishlak-ema-03/ "Kishlak"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612014254/http://www.bookrags.com/research/kishlak-ema-03/ |date=2012-06-12 }}, Encyclopedia of Central Asia

The converse term is yaylaq, a summer pasture.

Traditionally, a clay/mud fence (dewal, duval, from Persian: دیوار [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1 divār]) surrounds a kishlak.

The term may be seen in the toponyms, such as Afgan-Kishlak (Uzbekistan), Yangi-Kishlak (Turkmenistan), Mangyshlak (Kazakhstan), Qışlaq (Azerbaijan) or Qeshlaq in Iran (such as Qeshlaq, Qareh Qeshlaq, and Qeshlaq Khas).