آلنلق

Ottoman Turkish

آلنلق

Alternative forms

• آلینلق (alınlık)

Etymology

From آلن (alın, “forehead”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk).

Noun

آلنلق • (alınlık)

1. frontlet, any ornament worn on the forehead
2. chamfron, a protective armor on a horse's head
3. pediment, fronton, a triangular gable placed above the lintel

Descendants

• Turkish: alınlık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “alınlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 207
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلینلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 37
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلنلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 190