leylî

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish لیلی (leyli, “nocturnal”), from Arabic لَيْلِيّ (layliyy), from لَيْل (layl, “night”).

Adjective

leylî (archaic)

1. nocturnal
2. (education) boarder

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “leyli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لیلی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1648
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN