ایلیجه

Ottoman Turkish

ایلیجه

Alternative forms

• ایلجه (ılıca)

Etymology

From ایلی (ılı, “warm, lukewarm”) +‎ ـجه (-ca, “somewhat, rather, -like, -ish”).

Noun

ایلیجه • (ılıca) (definite accusative ایلیجه‌یی (ılıcayı), plural ایلیجه‌لر (ılıcalar))

1. spa, thermae, health club, a public building or location where spring water is used to give medicinal baths

   Synonym: قاپلیجه (kaplıca)

2. hot spring, a natural spring producing groundwater whose temperature is greater than about 20 °C (68 °F)

   Synonym: قاینارجه (kaynarca)

Descendants

• Turkish: ılıca
• → Albanian: llixhë

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “ایلیجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 239
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ılıca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2037
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ایلیجه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 95b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایلیجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 225
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Thermæ”, 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, Vienna, column 1671
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایلیجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 609
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ılıca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایلیجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 306