حلقه

حلقه

See also: حلقة‎ and خلقة‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَلْقَة‎ (ḥalqa, “ring, loop”).

Noun

حلقه • (halka) (plural حلق‎ or حالق‎)

1. ring, hoop, any solid object in the shape of a circle

   Synonyms: اطار‎ (itar), چنبر‎ (çember), خاتم‎ (hatem), یوزوك‎ (yüzük)

2. link, a circular element of a chain or other connected series

   Synonym: باقلا‎ (bakla)

Derived terms

• حلقه بند‎ (halka-bend, “who joins rings or links”)
• حلقهجی‎ (halkacı, “maker or seller of rings”)
• حلقه زن‎ (halka-zen, “who knocks the ring of a door”)
• حلقهلتمق‎ (halkalatmak, “to be furnished with rings”)
• حلقهلنمق‎ (halkalanmak, “to become a ring”)
• حلقهلو‎ (halkalı, “furnished with rings”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: halka
• → Armenian: խալխա (xalxa), խալաղա (xalała), հալկա (halka)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “halka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1852
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “حلقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 516
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Annulus”, 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 65
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “حلقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1798
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “halka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “حلقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 801

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَلْقَة‎ (ḥalqa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /halqa/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /halqa/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /hælɢe/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /halqa/

Noun

Dari	حلقه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳалқа (halqa)

حلقه • (halqe)

1. ring
2. hoop
3. circle

Derived terms

adjectives

• حلقه‌ای‎ (halqe'i, “ring-like, circular”)
• حلقه‌وار‎ (halqe-vâr, “ring-shaped, orbicular”)

 

nouns

• حلقه به گوش‎ (halqe be guš, “slave”, literally “hoops on ears”)