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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ellig (“fifty”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰠𐰏 (ellig), Azerbaijani əlli, Bashkir илле (ille), Chuvash аллă (allă), Kazakh елу (elu), Kyrgyz элүү (elüü), Turkmen elli, Uyghur ئەللىك (ellik) and Uzbek ellik.
Numeral
اللی • (elli)
- fifty, the cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one
- Synonyms: پنجاه (pencah), خمسین (hamsin)
Derived terms
- اللیشر (ellişer, “fifty each; fifty at once”)
- اللیلك (ellilik, “pertaining to fifty”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “elli1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1424
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اللی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 63a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اللی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 139
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Quinquaginta”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1427
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اللی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 397
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اللی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 188