دالو

Bakhtiari

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɒlu/

Noun

دالو (dâlū)

  1. elderly woman

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠳᠠᠯᠤ (dalu). Cognate with Azerbaijani dal (back), Mongolian дал (dal).

Noun

دالو (dalu) (plural دالولار (dalular))

  1. (anatomy) shoulder
    Synonyms: ایکین (egin), کتف (kätif), یاغیر (yağir)
  2. shoulderblade
    Synonym: کتف (kätif)

Descendants

  • Uyghur: دولا (dola)

Further reading

  • el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) “دالو”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎[1] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 169
  • Shaw, Robert Barkley (1880) “دالو”, in “Turki-English vocabulary” (chapter 2), in A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Káshgar and Yarkand)[2], Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, page 109
  • Ünlü, Suat (2013) “dalu”, in Çağatay Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Dictionary of Chagatai Turkic] (in Turkish), Konya: Eğitim Yayınevi, →ISBN, page 271
  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “دالو”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎[3] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 317