qale

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕaˈle/ [ʕaˈlɛ]
  • Hyphenation: qa‧le

Noun

qalé f (singulative qaléyta m, plural qalwá f or qalelwá f or qaleelá f)

  1. (collective) mountains, hills

Declension

Declension of qalé
absolutive qalé
predicative qalé
subjective qalé
genitive qalé
Postpositioned forms
l-case qalél
k-case qalék
t-case qalét
h-case qaléh

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “qale”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Mohamed Hassan Kamil (August 2013) “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics[1], Leiden: Leiden University

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: qa‧le

Noun

qale

  1. castle, fortress
  2. (chess) rook, castle

Declension

Declension of qale
singular plural
nominative qale qaleler
genitive qaleniñ qalelerniñ
dative qalege qalelerge
accusative qaleni qalelerni
locative qalede qalelerde
ablative qaleden qalelerden

References

Japhug

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qV-lij. Cognate with Geshiza wlæ and more distantly Burmese လေ (le).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qa.le/

Noun

qale

  1. (Kamnyu) wind

Derived terms

  • qalekɯtsʰi
  • ɯʁle