ئەل

Uyghur

Other scripts
Perso-Arabic ئەل‎
Latin ‍əl‍
Cyrillic әл

Etymology

From Old Turkic 𐰠‎ (él, “a union of tribes”), from Proto-Turkic *ēl (“peace; country, people”). Compare Turkish el, Yakut ил (il, “peace”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æl/

Noun

ئەل • (el) (plural ئەللەر‎ (eller))

  1. country
    Synonyms: دۆلەت‎ (dölet), يۇرت‎ (yurt), مەملىكەت‎ (memliket)
  2. people, nation, population
    ‏ئەلنىڭ قۇلىقى ئەللىك‎ ― elning quliqi ellik ― A country has fifty ears.
    Synonyms: ئاھال‎ (ahal), خەلق‎ (xelq)
  3. tribe
    Synonym: قەبىلە‎ (qebile)

Declension

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ēl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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