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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish میرآلای, equivalent to mir + alay, literally “regiment commander”.
Noun
miralay (definite accusative miralayı, plural miralaylar)
- (military) colonel
- Synonym: albay
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 32
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “miralay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN