آلپ
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Etymology 1
From Proto-Turkic *alp (“difficult, hard; warrior, hero, brave; giant, landlord”).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰞𐰯 (l¹p /alp/), Khakas алып (alıp, “hero”), Kazakh алып (alyp, “giant”), Tatar алып (alıp, “giant”), Yakut алып (alıp, “craftiness, deception, magic”).
Adjective
آلپ • (alp)
Descendants
- Turkish: alp
References
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ălpa”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “alp”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Sergei Starostin, Vladimir Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003), Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers (Etymology: *ălp)
Etymology 2
Proper noun
آلپ • (Alp)
Derived terms
- آشاغی آلپ (Aşağı Alp, “Basses-Alpes”)
- ساحلی آلپ (Sâhılî Alp, “Alpes-Maritimes”)
- یوقاری آلپ (Yukarı Alp, “Hautes-Alpes”)
Descendants
- Turkish: Alp
Further reading
- Şemseddin Sami (1889) “آلپ”, in Kâmûsü'l-A'lâm (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, Constantinople: Mihran, page 298
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