آلا

See also: ألا, إلا, and الا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• الا (ela)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āla (“variegated”); cognate with Azerbaijani ala, Bashkir ала (ala), Chuvash ула (ula), Kazakh ала (ala), Kyrgyz ала (ala), Turkmen āla, Uyghur ئالا (ala), Uzbek ola and Yakut ала (ala).

Adjective

آلا • (ala)

1. spotted, speckled, pied, striped, variegated

   Synonym: چوپورلو (çopurlu)

Derived terms

• آلا باجاق (ala bacak, “having white feet”)
• آلا بالق (ala balık, “trout”)
• آلا صیغیرجق (ala sığırcık, “kind of starling”)
• آلا قارغه (ala karga, “jay; hooded crow”)
• آلا گوزلو (ala gözlü, “heterochromatic”)
• آلاباش (alabaş, “kohlrabi”)
• آلاتن (alaten, “leprosy”)
• آلاجهری (ala cehri, “yellowberry”)
• آلاشهر (alaşehir, “a town in Manisa province”)
• آلالمق (alalamak, “to variegate with spots”)
• آلالنمق (alalanmak, “to become spotted”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ala
• → Bulgarian: ала (ala)
• → Macedonian: ала (ala)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ала

  Latin script: ala

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ala2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 185
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 31
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Versicolor”, 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 1741
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آلا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 372
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ala”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 179

Persian

Verb

آلا • (âlâ)

1. present stem form of آلودن (âludan)