بللی
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- بللو (bellü)
Etymology
From earlier بللو (bellü), from Proto-Turkic *bẹlgü-lig (“manifest”), a derivation of Proto-Turkic *bẹl- (“to denote, to designate”); cognate with Azerbaijani bəlli, Karakhanid بَلْكُلُكْ (belgülüg) and Kazakh белгілі (belgılı).
Adjective
بللی • (belli)
- known, famous, notorious, renowned, well-known
- Synonym: معلوم (ma'lum)
- obvious, clear, evident, apparent, manifest
- Synonyms: آچیق (açık), آشكار (aşikâr), ظاهر (zahir)
Derived terms
- بللی اولمق (belli olmak, “to be known”)
- بللی باشلو (belli başlı, “notable”)
- بللیسز (bellisiz, “unknown”)
Descendants
- Turkish: belli
- → Armenian: պելլի (pelli), բա̈լո̈ւ (bälü), պելնի (pelni)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “belli3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 542
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بللی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 276b
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Notus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1151
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بللی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 879
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “belli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بللی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 383