بالیوس

See also: باليوس

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بالیوز (balyoz)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish, from Venetian bailo (“title of a Venetian ambassador”), from Old Occitan baile, from Latin baiulus (“porter; steward”).

Noun

بالیوٓس • (balyos)

1. title of the Venetian ambassador to the Sublime Porte
2. title of any European envoy

Descendants

• → Arabic: باليوس (balyōs), باليوز (balyōz)
  • → Swahili: balozi (“ambassador”)
• → Albanian: bajloz, baloz
• → Armenian: պալիոզ (palioz), պալիոս (palios), պալեոզ (paleoz), պալյոզ (palyoz); պալիօզ (paliōz), պալիօս (paliōs), պալյօզ (palyōz) — traditional orthography
• → Northern Kurdish: balyoz
• → Turkish: balyoz (learned)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالیوس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335