آلچی

Chagatai

Alternative forms
  • آلچو (alçı)

Etymology

Of Turkic origin, but the root is uncertain.

Noun

آلچی (alçı)

  1. gypsum, plaster

References
  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “آلچی”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎ (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 31

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • آلچو (alçı)

Etymology

Of Turkic origin, but the root is uncertain.

Noun

آلچی • (alçı)

  1. gypsum, plaster

Descendants
  • Turkish: alçı
  • → Albanian: allçi
  • → Armenian: ալչի (alčʻi)
  • → Aromanian: álcie
  • → Bulgarian: алчи́я (alčíja)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (regional, obsolete)
    Cyrillic script: алчѝја
    Latin script: alčìja

References
  • Eren, Hasan (1999) “alçı”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, pages 8a–b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 34b
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آلچو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 384
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “alçı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “56. ÁLČIE sb. f.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 77

Urdu

Etymology

From Chagatai آلچی (alçı)

Pronunciation

Noun

آلْچِی • (ālcī) m (Hindi spelling आलची)

  1. one who catches or seizes

References
  • “آلچی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آلچی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • “آلچی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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