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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish لااقل (laakal), from Arabic عَلَى اَلْأَقَلّ (ʕalā l-ʔaqall).
Adjective
laakal (obsolete)
- at least
1937 May 16, Burhan Cevat, “Sevda Ilâci [Love potion]”, in Açık Söz, page 4:Osman kuvvetli bir ilâç yaptı. Bu, lâakal insani altı saat deliksiz uyutacak bir ilâçtı.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “lâ-akall”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 643
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 700