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thumb|right|A kishlak near Samarkand of early 1900s Kishlak or qishlaq (, , , , ), or qıştaq () qıstaw () 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).
thumb|right|A kishlak near Samarkand of early 1900s Kishlak or qishlaq (, , , , ), or qıştaq () qıstaw () 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).
The converse term is yaylaq, a summer pasture.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).