اولیا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَوْلِيَاء (ʔawliyāʔ), plural of وَلِيّ (waliyy, “prophet, saint”). Compare Turkmen öwlüýä and Uzbek avliyo.

Noun

اولیا • (evliya) (definite accusative اولیایی (evliyayı), plural اولیالر (evliyalar))

1. (Islam) saint, wali, a deceased person officially recognised as especially holy or godly by Muslims

   Synonyms: عزیز (ʼaziz), ولی (veli)

Derived terms

• اولیا دوه‌سی (evliya devesi, “woodlouse”)
• اولیا چلبی (evliya çelebi, “a personal name”)
• اولیالق (evliyalık, “sainthood”)

Descendants

• Turkish: evliya

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اولیا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 195
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “evliya”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1519
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “evliyâ'”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 289
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اولیا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 203
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sancti”, 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 1507
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اولیا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 549
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “evliya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اولیا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 269

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔaw.li.jɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäw.li.jɑː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäw.li.jɑː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäw.li.jɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäw.li.jɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔow.li.jɒː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäw.li.jɔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	awliyā
Dari reading?	awliyā
Iranian reading?	owliyâ
Tajik reading?	avliyo

Noun

اولیا • (owliyâ)

1. Hamza-less form of اولیاء

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَوْلِیَاء (awliyā'), from Arabic أَوْلِيَاء (ʔawliyāʔ).

Noun

اولیا • (auliyā) (Hindi spelling औलिया)

1. plural of وَلی (valī) — friends (of God), saints, holy men, prophets, apostles.