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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish اولیاء (evliyâ), from Arabic أَوْلِيَاء (ʔawliyāʔ).
Noun
evliya (definite accusative evliyayı, plural evliyalar)
- (Islam) saint, mahatma
Declension
Further reading
- “evliya”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu