باب عالی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
A Persian ezafe construct from Arabic words.
Proper noun
باب عالی • (Babıali)
- Sublime Porte, the Ottoman government or its seat of power.
Descendants
- Turkish: Babıali
- → Armenian: Պապը Ալի (Papə Ali)
- → Dutch: Hoge Porte (calque)
- → French: Sublime Porte (calque)
- → English: Sublime Porte
- → German: Hohe Pforte (calque)
- → Swedish: Höga porten (calque)
Further reading
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “Babıali”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN