اصلا

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Khalaj

Adverb

اَصلاً (aslən)

  1. Arabic spelling of aslən (“not at all”)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic أَصْلًا (ʔaṣlan).

Adverb

اصلاً • (aslen)

  1. originally
  2. essentially

Descendants

  • Turkish: aslen

Adverb

اصلا • (asla)

  1. never, not at all

Descendants

See also

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “asla”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “aslan 2”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اصلا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 102b

Persian

Alternative forms

  • اصن (asan) (colloquial, Tehran)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَصْلًا (ʔaṣlan).

Pronunciation

 
 

Readings
Classical reading? aslan, aslā
Dari reading? aslan, aslā
Iranian reading? aslan
Tajik reading? aslo

Adverb

Dari اصلا
Iranian Persian
Tajik асло

اصلاً or اصلا • (aslan or aslâ)

  1. (with a negated verb) not at all
    Synonyms: به هیچ وجه (be hêč vajh), حاشا و کلا (hâšâ va kallâ), به هیچ روی (be hêč rôy)
    • c. 1260, Rumi, “2:1675”, in The Masnavi:
      ز ان نشان با والد یحیی بگفت، که نیایی تا سه روز اصلا به گفت.
      z-ân nešân bâ vâled-e yahya be-goft, ke nay-âyi tâ se ruz aslan be goft.
      Concerning that sign, said to the father of Yahya, "You shall not begin to speak at all until three days ."
      (adapted from the Reynold A. Nicholson translation)
  2. originally

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اصلاً (aslan), from Arabic أَصْلًا (ʔaṣlan).

Adverb

اصلا • (aslan) (Hindi spelling असलन)

  1. actually, genuinely, radically
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