قله
See also: قلة and فلة
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian قله (qolle), from Arabic قُلَّة (qulla, “peak, summit, top”).
Noun
قله • (kulle) (plural قال or قلال)
- top, summit, peak, especially of a mountain
- Synonyms: تپه (tepe), ذروه (zirve), طوروق (doruk), قمه (kımme)
- tower, pinnacle, steeple, turret
- Synonym: برج (burc)
Descendants
- Turkish: kule
- → Bulgarian: кула (kula)
- → Macedonian: кула (kula)
- → Romanian: culă
- → Serbo-Croatian: кула
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kule”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2829
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 970
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Turris”, 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 1706
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3755
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kule”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1473
Persian
Etymology
From Arabic قُلَّة (qulla).
Pronunciation
audio (file) - Rhymes: -e
Noun
قله • (qolle)
- peak (of a mountain)
- zenith
- pinnacle
Descendants
- → Ottoman Turkish: قله
- Turkish: kule
- → Bulgarian: кула (kula)
- → Macedonian: кула (kula)
- → Romanian: culă
- → Serbo-Croatian: кула