ایلچی
Azerbaijani
Noun
ایلچی (definite accusative ایلچینی, plural ایلچیلر)
- Arabic spelling of elçi
Old Anatolian Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ēlči; cognate with Kazakh елші (elşı), Kumyk элчи (elçi), Kyrgyz элчи (elci), Southern Altai элчи (elči), Turkmen ilçi, Uyghur ئەلچى (elchi) and Uzbek elchi. By surface analysis, ایل (ẹl, “tribe, people, nation”) + ـچی (çı, -çi, occupational suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /elˈt͡ʃi/
Noun
ایلچی • (ẹlçi) (definite accusative ایلچیی (ẹlçiyi), plural ایلچیلر (ẹlçiler))
- messenger, someone who brings or delivers messages
- delegate, legate, envoy, representative, someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body
- (religion) prophet; someone believed to have communicated with a divine power and to have brought messages from said power
Derived terms
- ایلچی یه اولوم یوقدر (ẹlçiye ölüm yoqdur, “don't shoot the messenger”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Kanar, Mehmet (2018) “elçi”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 253
- Kanar, Mehmet (2018) “ilçi”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 366
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elçi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)[1] (in Turkish), volume III, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1967, page 144
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish ایلچی (ẹlçi), from Proto-Turkic *ēlči. Cognate with Azerbaijani elçi, Kazakh елші (elşı), Kumyk элчи (elçi), Kyrgyz элчи (elci), Southern Altai элчи (elči), Turkmen ilçi, Uyghur ئەلچى (elchi) and Uzbek elchi. By surface analysis, ایل (il, el, “tribe, people, nation”) + ـجی (cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
ایلچی • (elçi) (definite accusative ایلچیی (elçiyi), plural ایلچیلر (elçiler))
- agent, proxy, one who acts in the place of another by that person's authority, someone entrusted to act on behalf of another
- Synonym: وكیل (vekil)
- delegate, legate, envoy, representative, someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body
- ambassador, a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state
- Synonyms: بیوك ایلچی (büyük elçi), سفیر (sefir)
Derived terms
- اورتا ایلچی (orta elçi, “minister plenipotentiary”)
- ایلچی عقللو (elçi ʼakıllı, “prudent like a diplomat”)
- ایلچی وكیلی (elçi vekili, “chargé d'affaires”)
- ایلچیلك (elçilik, “ambassadorship”)
- بیوك ایلچی (büyük elçi, “ambassador”)
- كوچوك ایلچی (küçük elçi, “minister resident”)
- مخصوص ایلچی (mahsus elçi, “special envoy”)
- وارار كلن ایلچی (varar gelen elçi, “go-between, mediator”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “ایلچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 235
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “elçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1413
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ایلچی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 95a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایلچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 223
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Legatus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[4], Vienna, column 930
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایلچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[5], Vienna, column 605
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elçi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایلچی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 304
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian ایلچی (ēlčī, īlčī), from Chagatai ایلچی (elçi). Compare Turkish elçi (“ambassador”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /eːl.t͡ʃiː/
Noun
ایلْچی • (elcī) m (Hindi spelling एलची)
- ambassador, emissary, representative, diplomat, envoy
- (historical) elchi