miralay
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish میرآلای, equivalent to mir + alay, literally “regiment commander”.
Noun
miralay (definite accusative miralayı, plural miralaylar)
- (military) colonel
- Synonym: albay
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “آلای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 32
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “miralay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, 2013, →ISBN