Ottoman Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic إِعْلَاء (ʔiʕlāʔ, elevation, raising), from عَلَا (ʕalā).

Noun edit

اعلا (i'la)

  1. elevation
  2. glorification

References edit

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اعلا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 113
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “i'la 2”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 526