ղայիլ

ղայիլ

Armenian

Etymology

From Middle Armenian ղայիլ (łayil), from Ottoman Turkish قائل‎‎ (kail, kayil, “consenting, agreed”), from Arabic قَائِل‎‎ (qāʾil).

Pronunciation

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ʁɑˈjil]

Adjective

ղայիլ • (łayil) (dialectal)

1. consenting, agreed

   Synonym: համաձայն (hamajayn)

   • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 28:[1]

     ղայիլկալ^[sic]․ քօնթէնթարսի

     łayilkal^[sic]; kʿōntʿēntʿarsi

     ղայիլ կալ (łayil kal) = contentarsi

Alternative forms

• խայիլ (xayil), կայիլ (kayil)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), “խայիլ”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žołovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Łarabałi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The Influence of Turkish on Armenian and Words Borrowed from Turkish in the Vernacular Armenian Language of Constantinople in Comparison with the Dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow, Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages

References

1. Orengo, Alessandro (2019), “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 232