طالغه
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tolkun; cognate with Azerbaijani dalğa, Kazakh толқын (tolqyn), Kyrgyz толкун (tolkun), Tatar дулкын (dulkın), Turkmen tolkun, Uyghur دولقۇن (dolqun) and Uzbek to'lqin.
Noun
طالغه • (dalga, dalğa)
- wave, a regular movement in water
- Synonyms: تالاز (talaz), موج (mevj)
- wave as a form, undulation, ripple
Derived terms
- طالغهسز (dalgasız, “smooth, waveless”)
- طالغهلانمق (dalgalanmak, “to ripple”)
- طالغهلو (dalgalı, “rough, undulated”)
Descendants
- Turkish: dalga
- → Abkhaz: а-далӷа (a-dalğa)
- → Albanian: dállgë
- → Armenian: (Constantinople) տալղա (talła), (Van) դալկա (dalka)
- → Aromanian: dálgã
- → Bulgarian: далга́ (dalgá)
- → Georgian: ტალღა (ṭalɣa)
- → Greek: νταλκάς (dalkás)
- → Macedonian: далга (dalga)
- → Romanian: dalgá
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: да̀лга
- Latin: dàlga
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dalga”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1085
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طالغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 794
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Unda”, 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 1781
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dalga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طالغه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1227