Chagatai edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Of Turkic origin, but the root is uncertain.

Noun edit

آلچی (alçı)

  1. gypsum, plaster

References edit

Ottoman Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Of Turkic origin, but the root is uncertain.

Noun edit

آلچی (alçı)

  1. gypsum, plaster

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: alçı
  • Albanian: allçi
  • Armenian: ալչի (alčʻi)
  • Aromanian: álcie
  • Bulgarian: алчи́я (alčíja)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (regional, obsolete)
    Cyrillic script: алчѝја
    Latin script: alčìja

References edit

  • Eren, Hasan (1999) “alçı”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, pages 8a–b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 34b
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آلچو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 384
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “alçı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “56. ÁLČIE sb. f.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎[4], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 77

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

From Chagatai آلچی (alçı)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

آلْچِی (ālcīm (Hindi spelling आलची)

  1. one who catches or seizes

References edit

  • آلچی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آلچی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • آلچی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.