ویل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic وَيْل (wayl, “distress; woe”).

Interjection

ویل • (veyl)

1. alas, too bad

Descendants

• Turkish: veyl

See also

• وای (vay)

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “veyl”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ویل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1318b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “veyl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “ویل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz