لوا
Arabic
Verb
لُوا • (lū) (form I)
- second-person masculine plural active imperative of وَلِيَ (waliya)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic لِوَاء (liwāʾ, “flag, banner, standard”).
Noun
لوا • (liva) (plural الویه (elviya))
- flag, banner, standard, ensign
- Synonyms: بیراق (bayrak), رایت (rayet), سنجاق (sancak), علم (ʿalem)
- sanjak, the second level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
- Synonym: سنجاق (sancak)
- (military) brigade, a military unit composed of several regiments
Derived terms
- میر لوا (mîr-i livā, “brigadier general”)
Descendants
- Turkish: liva
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “liva”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2973
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “لوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1082a
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Vexillum”, 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 1750
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “لوا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4201
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “liva”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1644