عالیه
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya).
Adjective
عالیه • (ʼaliye)
- feminine of عالی (ʼali, “high, lofty, excellent”)
Noun
عالیه • (ʼaliye) (definite accusative عالیهیی (ʼaliyeyi), plural عالیهلر (ʼaliyeler))
- the upper part of anything, as the upper part of a spear-shaft, or the upper part of a valley or stream
Descendants
- Turkish: aliye
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aliye1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 216
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “âliye”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 37
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عالیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 836
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عالیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1279