بدليس
See also: بدلیس
Arabic
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bad.liːs/
Proper noun
بَدْلِيس • (badlīs) f
- Bitlis (a city in Bitlis Province, Turkey; 25 km southwest of Tatvan at Lake Van)
- Bitlis (a district of Bitlis Province, Turkey)
- Bitlis (a province of Turkey; to the west of Van Province)
Declension
| singular | basic singular diptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | — | بَدْلِيس badlīs |
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| nominative | — | بَدْلِيسُ badlīsu |
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| accusative | — | بَدْلِيسَ badlīsa |
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| genitive | — | بَدْلِيسَ badlīsa |
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Further reading
- a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān][1], volume 1, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1866, page 526:
- Le Strange, Guy (1905) The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 184
- Houshamadyan – a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life, 2025, Province of Bitlis: Photo gallery [with map]