قلعه

See also: قلعہ and قلعة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian قلعه (qal'e), from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa).

Noun

قلعه • (kalʼa or kalʼe or kale)

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

Derived terms

• چناق قلعه (Çanak Kal'e)

Descendants

• Turkish: kale
• → Albanian: kala

References

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

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qal.ˈʔa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäl.ʔǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäl.ʔǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qä.lɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qä.lǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæl.ʔé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qäl.ʔǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	qal'a
Dari reading?	qal'a
Iranian reading?	ğal'e
Tajik reading?	qalʾa

Noun

Dari	قلعه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қалъа

قَلعه • (qal'e) (plural قَلعه‌ها (qal'e-hâ) or قِلاع (qelâ'))

1. fortress, castle, stronghold

   Synonyms: دژ (dež), قصر (qasr)

2. (chess) castle (rook)

   Synonym: رخ (rox)

Descendants

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

  Hindi: क़िला (qilā)

  Urdu: قِلْعَہ (qil'a)

  • → English: qila
  • → Shina: قلعہ (qilla)

• → 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
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਕਿਲ੍ਹਾ (kilhā)

  Shahmukhi script: قلعہ (qila)

• → 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)