لیلاق
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic لَيْلَك (laylak).
Noun
لیلاق • (leylak)
- lilac
- Synonym: پاسقالیه (paskalya)
Descendants
- Turkish: leylak
- → Albanian: llullaq, lilak, lailak, laila
- → Armenian: լեյլախ (leylax), լելաղ (lelał)
- → Bulgarian: лю̀ляк (ljùljak), лѝля̀к (lìljàk), лю̀лѐк (ljùlѐk), лѝлек (lìlek), лула̀к (lulàk)
- → Polish: lilak (also from French)
- → Romanian: liliac
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: љи́љак
- Latin: ljíljak
- → Ukrainian: лілія́к (liliják) (dialectal, also from French)
References
- Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1986), “лѝляк”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 403