a variant spelling of haiduck; an armed robber, bandit, or mercenary retainer in Balkan and Ottoman history.
Alternate English spelling of 'haiduck,' borrowed from Hungarian and Turkish; this spelling variation reflects different transliteration systems for the same historical term.
The different spellings (haiduck, haiduk, hayduk) show how one word traveled across languages and empires—each spelling variation tells you which European country borrowed the term and when.
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