الما
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الما
See also: آلما
Kyrgyz
Noun
الما • (alma)
- Arabic spelling of алма (alma).
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
- آلما (alma)
Etymology
Inherited from Common Turkic *alma; cognate with Azerbaijani alma, Bashkir алма (alma), Kazakh алма (alma), Kumyk алма (alma), Kyrgyz алма (alma), Tatar алма (alma), Turkmen alma, Uyghur ئالما (alma) and Uzbek olma.
Pronunciation
Noun
الما • (elma) (definite accusative المایی (elmayı), plural المالر (elmalar))
- apple, a common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica
- (by extension) anything that resembles an apple, such as a globe or ball
Derived terms
- آجی الما (acı elma, “colocynth”)
- الما آغاجی (elma ağacı, “apple tree”)
- الما باش (elma baş, “pochard”)
- الما شرابی (elma şarabı, “apple cider”)
- الماجق (elmacık, “iliac crest”)
- الماجی (elmacı, “grower or seller of apples”)
- المالق (elmalık, “apple orchard”)
- المالی (elmalı, “made with apples”)
- دوه الماسی (deve elması, “eryngo”)
- فرنك یر الماسی (frenk yer elması, “potato”)
- قزل الما (kızıl elma, “the city of Rome”, literally “red apple”)
- كوز الماسی (göz elması, “eyeball”)
- یر الماسی (yer elması, “name of various kinds of plants”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “الما”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 108
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “elma1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1424
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “الما”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 63a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “الما”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 139
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pomum”, 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 1316
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “الما”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 399
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “الما”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 189