طالغه

Ottoman Turkish

طالغه

Alternative forms

• طلغه (dalga, dalğa)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tolkun (“wave”); cognate with Azerbaijani dalğa, Bashkir тулҡын (tulqın), Kazakh толқын (tolqyn), Kyrgyz толкун (tolkun), Turkmen tolkun, Uyghur دولقۇن (dolqun) and Uzbek toʻlqin.

Noun

طالغه • (dalga or dalğa) (definite accusative طالغه‌یی (dalgayı, dalğayı), plural طالغه‌لر (dalgalar, dalğalar))

1. wave, ripple, a moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid, usually water

   Synonyms: تالاز (talaz), موج (mevc)

2. wave, undulation, a wavelike shape or motion, a smooth and regular rise and fall

   Synonym: موج (mevc)

3. silk-watering, the act of sprinkling silk with water in order to avoid excessive dryness

Derived terms

• بیوك كمی طالغه‌دن قورقمز (büyük gemi dalgadan korkmaz, “a tough man is not afraid of danger”, literally “a big ship is not afraid of waves”)
• طالغه‌جق (dalgacık, “wavelet”)
• طالغه‌سز (dalgasız, “waveless, unfluctuating”)
• طالغه‌لاندرمق (dalgalandırmak, “to make or let rise in waves”)
• طالغه‌لانمق (dalgalanmak, “to ripple”)
• طالغه‌لو (dalgalı, “rough, undulated”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dalga
• → Abkhaz: а-далӷа (a-dalğa)
• → Albanian: dallgë
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) տալղա (talġa), (Van) դալկա (dalka)
• → Aromanian: dálgã
• → Bulgarian: далга́ (dalgá)
• → Georgian: ტალღა (ṭalɣa)
  • → Bats: ტალღ (ṭalɣ)
• → Greek: νταλκάς (ntalkás)
• → Macedonian: далга (dalga)
• → Romanian: dalgá
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: да̀лга

  Latin script: dàlga

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طالغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 266
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dalga”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1085
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طلغه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 314a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طالغه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 794
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Unda”, 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 1781
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طلغه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3121
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dalga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طالغه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1227