بدليس

See also: بدلیس

Arabic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bad.liːs/

Proper noun

بَدْلِيس • (badlīs) f

1. Bitlis (a city in Bitlis Province, Turkey; 25 km southwest of Tatvan at Lake Van)
2. Bitlis (a district of Bitlis Province, Turkey)
3. Bitlis (a province of Turkey; to the west of the Van Province)

Declension

Declension of noun بَدْلِيس (badlīs)

Singular	basic singular diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	بَدْلِيس badlīs	—
Nominative	—	بَدْلِيسُ badlīsu	—
Accusative	—	بَدْلِيسَ badlīsa	—
Genitive	—	بَدْلِيسَ badlīsa	—

Further reading

• a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān]‎^[1], volume 1, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1866, page 526:
• Le Strange, Guy (1905) The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 184
• Houshamadyan – a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life, 2024, Province of Bitlis: Photo gallery [with map]