en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_houses_in_the_Balkans

The sentence says the listed terms are "all" words meaning "tower". That is not correct for odžak.

An authoritative South Slavic dictionary entry defines òdžak as:

• "dimnjak, ognjište" (“chimney, hearth”), and
• by extension "domaćinstvo, porodica, kuća, dom" (“household, family, house, home”), or historically a wealthy Ottoman residence/castle.

So while kullë / kula / culă / kuli are tower-words, odžak is not simply a Bosnian word meaning “tower.” The blanket phrase "all meaning 'tower'" is therefore false.

The key problem is the absolute word "solely". Multiple sources on Kosovo kullas describe them as having family living quarters inside the kulla itself, with the oda e burrave (men’s chamber) as a specific room/floor, not the entire building.

A 2024 peer-reviewed article on Albanian kulla stone houses states that in kulla houses "the first floor of the kulla is where the family lives" and that "the women’s room ... is where food is prepared and eaten, and family life takes place." It also describes separate bedrooms for married couples on the same floor.

Official Kosovo cultural-heritage documentation gives the same picture. For Kulla e Ymer Vesel Rexhaj in Pejë, the Ministry’s database says the kulla’s functional arrangement included "odat e familjes" (family rooms) on the lower level, while "oda e burrave" (the men’s room) was on the upper level. Another official heritage entry for the Dervisholli family residential complex explicitly distinguishes a men’s tower, a women’s tower, and a dwelling house, again contradicting the idea that kullas in Kosovo were simply inhabited only by men.

So, although gendered spaces were important in kulla architecture, the categorical claim that kullas were inhabited solely by men is not supported and is contradicted by both scholarship and official heritage records.