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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ملغی (mülga), a late Ottoman borrowing from Arabic مُلْغًى (mulḡan), passive participle of أَلْغَى (ʔalḡā, “to cancel”).
Adjective
mülga (archaic)
- abolished
- suppressed
See also
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mülga”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 860
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ملغا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1221
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mülga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN