आलय

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit आलय (ālaya).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɑː.ləj/,

आलय • (ālay) m (Urdu spelling آلیہ) (formal)

1. place, home

• कार्यालय (kāryālay)
• पुस्तकालय (pustakālay)
• ग्रन्थालय (granthālay)
• विद्यालय (vidyālay)
• महाविद्यालय (mahāvidyālay)
• भोजनालय (bhojnālay)
• शौचालय (śaucālay)
• संग्रहालय (saṅgrahālay)
• हिमालय (himālay)
• चिकित्सालय (cikitsālay)
• रुग्णालय (rugṇālay)
• न्यायालय (nyāyālay)
• मंत्रालय (mantrālay)
• वस्त्रालय (vastrālay)
• दुग्धालय (dugdhālay)

From आ- (ā-) +‎ लयते (layate, “stays, sticks”), the latter component from the root ली (lī, “to cling, adhere to”), from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”), related to लिनाति (lināti, “stays, sticks, adheres to”) and cognate with Proto-Germanic *slīmą (whence English slime).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɑː.lɐ.jɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.l̪ɐ.jɐ/

आलय • (ā-laya) stem, m or n

1. house, dwelling

   हिमालय (himālaya "abode of snow", from hima "snow" + ālaya)

2. receptacle, asylum

• Magadhi Prakrit
  • • Bengali: -অল (-ol)
• → Hindi: आलय (ālay) (learned)
• → Tamil: ஆலயம் (ālayam)
• → Telugu: ఆలయము (ālayamu)
• → Thai: อาลัย (aa-lai)

• Monier Williams (1899) “आलय”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0153.
• “आलय”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.