طالیان

See also: طالبان, طالبات, and طاليان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Adjective

طالیان • (talyan, dalyan)

1. alternative form of تالیان (talyan, “Italian”)

Noun

طالیان • (talyan, dalyan)

1. alternative form of تالیان (talyan, “Italian”)

Etymology 2

Unknown, presumed to be Byzantine Greek *ἁλιάνειον (*haliáneion, “fishing place”) with the Greek article, related to ἁλιεύω (halieúō, “to fish”).

Alternative forms

• دالیان (dalyan)

طالیان

Noun

طالیان • (talyan, dalyan)

1. fishgarth, or a fishing station on poles above the water where one looks out for fish and leads them into nets

Descendants

• Turkish: dalyan
• → Albanian: dajlan
• → Armenian: տալյան (talyan)
• → Bulgarian: даля́н (dalján)
• → Greek: νταλιάνι (ntaliáni), ταλιάνι (taliáni)
• → Macedonian: даљан (daljan)
• → Russian: талья́н (talʹján)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: да́љан

  Latin script: dáljan

References

• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 477–481
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طالیان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3077