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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian کلاه (kulâh, “hat; crown”).
Noun
كلاه • (külah)
- pileus, a conical hat made of felt and worn by men
- Synonym: بورك (börk)
- any ornamental headwear, such as a crown, tiara, diadem or mitra
- the wind cover of a hookah, which prevents the wind from increasing the burn rate
- (figuratively) deceit, ruse, trick, intrigue, machination
- Synonyms: اویون (oyun), طولاب (dolab)
Derived terms
- اشكجی كلاهی (eşekci külahı, “donkey driver's hat”)
- تاتار كلاه (tatar külah, “Tatar's conical cap”)
- كلاه قاپمق (külah kapmak, “to snatch a cap”)
- كلاه گیدرمك (külah giydirmek, “to make a special hat”)
- كلاهجی (külahcı, “maker or seller of conical hats”)
- كلاهدار (külahdar, “crowned sovereign”)
- كلاهلو (külahlı, “wearing a conical hat”)
- مولوی کلاه (mevlevi külah, “conical hat of a dervish”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “külah”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2887
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلاه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1033
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pileus”, 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 1300
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كلاه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3993
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “külah”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كلاه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1563