evliya
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اولیا (evliyâ, “saint, mahatma”), from Arabic أَوْلِيَاء (ʔawliyāʔ).
Noun
[edit]evliya (definite accusative evliyayı, plural evliyalar)
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “evliya”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu