Uyghur edit

Other scripts
Perso-Arabic ئەل
Latin əl
Cyrillic әл

Etymology edit

From Old Turkic 𐰠 (él, a union of tribes), from Proto-Turkic *ēl (peace; country, people). Compare Turkish el, Yakut ил (il, peace).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ئەل (el) (plural ئەللەر (eller))

  1. country
    Synonyms: دۆلەت (dölet), يۇرت (yurt), مەملىكەت (memliket)
  2. people, nation, population
    Synonyms: ئاھال (ahal), خەلق (xelq)
    ئەلنىڭ قۇلىقى ئەللىكelning quliqi ellikA country has fifty ears.
  3. tribe
    Synonym: قەبىلە (qebile)

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ēl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill