آولی

Ottoman Turkish

آولی

Alternative forms

• آولو (avlu), حولی (havlı)

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek αὐλή (aulḗ, “courtyard, open court”).

Noun

آولی • (avlı) (definite accusative آولیی (avlıyı), plural آولیلر (avlılar))

1. (architecture) courtyard, court, an open area, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings

   Synonyms: صحن (sahan), فضا (feza)

2. yard, a small area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building

Descendants

• Turkish: avlu
• → Albanian: avlli
• → Armenian: ավլու (avlu)
• → Bulgarian: авли́я (avlíja)
• → Macedonian: авлија (avlija)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: а̀влија

  Latin script: àvlija

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آولی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 195
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “avlu1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 364
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آولی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 87a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آولی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 41
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Impluvium”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 753
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آولی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 548
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 43
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “avlu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آولی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 269