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]‎^[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 31

Ottoman Turkish

آلچی

Alternative forms

• آلچو (alçı, alçu)

Etymology

Unclear. According to Nishanyan, from Proto-Turkic *alču (“gypsum”), perhaps a variant of *ašu (“ochre”); if so, doublet of آشی (aşı, “ochre”). Cognate with Chagatai آلچی (alçı).

Noun

آلچی • (alçı) (definite accusative آلچیی (alçıyı), plural آلچیلر (alçılar))

1. gypsum, plaster-stone, a mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate, used as a fertilizer or as a constituent of plaster

   Synonym: آلچی طاشی (alçı taşı)

2. plaster of Paris, a hemihydrate of calcium sulfate, made by calcining gypsum, that hardens when moistened and allowed to dry

Derived terms

• آلچی ایشی (alçı işi, “plasterwork”)
• آلچی طاشی (alçı taşı, “gypsum, plaster-stone”)
• آلچیلاتمق (alçılatmak, “to make or let be plastered”)
• آلچیلامق (alçılamak, “to plaster, render”)
• آلچیلانمق (alçılanmak, “to be plastered or rendered”)
• آلچیلی (alçılı, “containing gypsum or plaster”)

Descendants

• Turkish: alçı
• → Albanian: allçi
• → Armenian: ալչի (alčʻi)
• → Aromanian: álcie
• → Bulgarian: алчи́я (alčíja)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (regional, obsolete)

  Cyrillic script: алчѝја

  Latin script: alčìja

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آلچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 105
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “alçı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 197
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “alçı”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎^[2] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, pages 8a–b
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آلچی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[3], Vienna: F. Beck, page 61a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 34b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gypsum”, 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^[5], Vienna, column 679
• 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^[6], 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]‎^[7], 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
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلچی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 184

Urdu

Etymology

From Chagatai آلچی (alçı)

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːl.t͡ʃiː/

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, 2025.