بالیوس
See also: باليوس
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- بالیوز (balyoz)
Etymology
From Old Anatolian Turkish, from Venetan bailo (“title of a Venetian ambassador”), from Old Occitan baile, from Latin baiulus (“porter; steward”).
Noun
بالیوٓس • (balyos)
- title of the Venetian ambassador to the Sublime Porte
- title of any European envoy
Descendants
- → Arabic: باليوس (balyōs), باليوز (balyōz)
- → Swahili: balozi (“ambassador”)
- → Albanian: bajloz, baloz
- → Armenian: պալիոզ (palioz), պալիոս (palios), պալեոզ (paleoz), պալյոզ (palyoz), պալիօզ (paliōz), պալիօս (paliōs), պալյօզ (palyōz) — traditional orthography
- → Northern Kurdish: balyoz
- → Turkish: balyoz (learned)
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالیوس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335