قله

From Persian قله (qolle), from Arabic قُلَّة (qulla, “peak, summit, top”).

قله • (kulle) (plural قال or قلال)

1. top, summit, peak, especially of a mountain

   Synonyms: تپه (tepe), ذروه (zirve), طوروق (doruk), قمه (kımme)

2. tower, pinnacle, steeple, turret

   Synonym: برج (burc)

• Turkish: kule
• → Bulgarian: кула (kula)
• → Macedonian: кула (kula)
• → Romanian: culă
• → Serbo-Croatian: кула

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kule”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2829
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 970
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Turris”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1706
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3755
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kule”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1473

Borrowed from Arabic قُلَّة (qulla).

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• Rhymes: -e

قله • (qolle) (plural قله‌ها, or قلل (qolal), or قلات (qollât))

1. peak (of a mountain)

   Synonyms: چکاد (čakâd), ستیغ (setiġ)

2. zenith; pinnacle

   Synonym: ستیغ (setiġ)

• → Ottoman Turkish: قله
  • Turkish: kule
  • → Bulgarian: кула (kula)
  • → Macedonian: кула (kula)
  • → Romanian: culă
  • → Serbo-Croatian: кула