قلعه
See also: قلعہ and قلعة
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian قلعه (qal'e), from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʿa).
Noun
قلعه • (kalʼa or kalʼe or kale)
- fortress
- castle
- (military) square (body of troops drawn up in a square formation)
Descendants
- Turkish: kale
- → Albanian: kala
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قلعه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1469
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʿa).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /qalˈʔa/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /qalˈʔa/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /ɢælˈʔe/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /qalˈʔa/
Noun
Dari | قلعه |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | қалъа (qalʾa) |
قَلعه • (qal'e) (plural قَلعهها (qal'e-hâ) or قِلاع (qelâ'))
- fortress, castle, stronghold
- Synonyms: دژ (dež), قصر (qasr)
- (chess) rook
- Synonym: رخ (rox)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: qala
- → Bashkir: ҡала (qala)
- → Bengali: কেল্লা (kella)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: क़िला (qilā)
- Urdu: قلعہ (qila)
- → Kazakh: қала (qala)
- → Kyrgyz: калаa (kalaa)
- → Marathi: किल्ला (killā)
- → Tajik: қалъа (qalʾa)
- → Tatar: кала (qala)
- → Turkmen: gala
- → Uzbek: qalʼa
- → Ottoman Turkish: قلعه (kalʼa, kalʼe)
- Turkish: kale
- → Albanian: kala
- → Uyghur: قەلئە (qel'e)
See also
Chess pieces in Persian · مهرههای شطرنج (mohre-hâye šatranj) (layout · text) | |||||
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شاه (šâh) | وزیر (vazir) | رخ (rox), قلعه (qal'e) | فیل (fil) | اسب (asb) | پیاده (piyâde), سرباز (sarbâz) |