آلن

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • آلین (alın)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ālïn (“forehead”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani alın, Karakhanid اَلِنْ (alïn) and Turkmen ālyn, also Chuvash ум (um).

Noun

آلن • (alın)

  1. forehead, the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline
    Synonyms: پیشانی (pişani), جبین (cebin)

Derived terms

  • آلن یازیسی (alın yazısı, “the writing on the forehead”)
  • آلنلق (alınlık, “frontlet; pediment”)
  • آلنلو (alınlı, “having a large forehead”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: alın

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “alın”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 147

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