الما

See also: آلما

Kyrgyz

Noun

الما • (alma)

1. Arabic spelling of алма (alma).

Ottoman Turkish

الما

Alternative forms

• آلما (alma)

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *alma; cognate with Azerbaijani alma, Bashkir алма (alma), Kazakh алма (alma), Kumyk алма (alma), Kyrgyz алма (alma), Tatar алма (alma), Turkmen alma, Uyghur ئالما (alma) and Uzbek olma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [el.ˈmɑ]

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Noun

الما • (elma) (definite accusative المایی (elmayı), plural المالر (elmalar))

1. apple, a common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica

   Synonyms: تفاح (tuffah), سیب (sib)

2. (by extension) anything that resembles an apple, such as a globe or ball

Derived terms

• آجی الما (acı elma, “colocynth”)
• الما آغاجی (elma ağacı, “apple tree”)
• الما باش (elma baş, “pochard”)
• الما شرابی (elma şarabı, “apple cider”)
• الماجق (elmacık, “iliac crest”)
• الماجی (elmacı, “grower or seller of apples”)
• المالق (elmalık, “apple orchard”)
• المالی (elmalı, “made with apples”)
• دوه الماسی (deve elması, “eryngo”)
• فرنك یر الماسی (frenk yer elması, “potato”)
• قزل الما (kızıl elma, “the city of Rome”, literally “red apple”)
• كوز الماسی (göz elması, “eyeball”)
• یر الماسی (yer elması, “name of various kinds of plants”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: elma
• → Middle Armenian: Էլմա (Ēlma)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “الما”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 108
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “elma1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1424
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “الما”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 63a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “الما”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 139
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pomum”, 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 1316
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “الما”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 399
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “الما”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 189