قلعه

See also: قلعہ‎ and قلعة‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian قلعه‎ (qal'e), from Arabic قَلْعَة‎ (qalʿa).

Noun

قلعه • (kalʼa or kalʼe or kale)

1. fortress
2. castle
3. (military) square (body of troops drawn up in a square formation)

Descendants

• Turkish: kale
• → Albanian: kala

References

• Redhouse, James W., “قلعه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, 1890, page 1469

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَلْعَة‎ (qalʿa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /qalʔa/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /qalʔa/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ɣælʔe/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /qalʔa/

Noun

قلعه • (qal'e) (plural قلعه‌ها‎ (qal'e-hâ) or قلاع‎ (qelâ'))

Dari Persian	قلعه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қалъа (qalʾa)

1. fortress, castle, stronghold
2. (chess) rook

Synonyms

• (fortress, castle): دژ‎ (dež), قصر‎ (qasr)
• (rook): رخ‎ (rox)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: qala
• → Bashkir: ҡала (qala)
• → Bengali: কেল্লা (kella)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: क़िला (qilā)

  Urdu: قلعہ‎ (qila)

• → Kazakh: қала (qala)

• → Kyrgyz: калаa (kalaa)
• → Marathi: किल्ला (killā)
• → Tajik: қалъа (qalʾa)
• → Tatar: кала (qala)
• → Turkmen: gala
• → Uzbek: qalʼa
• → Ottoman Turkish: قلعه‎ (kalʼa, kalʼe)
  • Turkish: kale
  • → Albanian: kala
• → Uyghur: قەلئە‎ (qel'e)

See also

Chess pieces in Persian · مهره‌های شطرنج‎ (mohre-hâye šatranj) (layout · text)
شاه‎ (šâh)	وزیر‎ (vazir)	رخ‎ (rox), قلعه (qal'e)	فیل‎ (fil)	اسب‎ (asb)	پیاده‎ (piyâde), سرباز‎ (sarbâz)