قله

From Persian قله‎ (qolle), from Arabic قُلَّة‎ (qulla, “peak, summit, top”).

قله • (kulle) (plural قال‎ or قلال‎)

1. top, summit, peak, especially of a mountain

   Synonyms: تپه‎ (tepe), ذروه‎ (zirve), طوروق‎ (doruk), قمه‎ (kımme)

2. tower, pinnacle, steeple, turret

   Synonym: برج‎ (burc)

• Turkish: kule
• → Bulgarian: кула (kula)
• → Macedonian: кула (kula)
• → Romanian: culă
• → Serbo-Croatian: кула

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kule”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2829
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 970
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Turris”, 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 1706
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3755
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kule”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1473

From Arabic قُلَّة‎ (qulla).

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قله • (qolle)

1. peak (of a mountain)
2. zenith
3. pinnacle

• → Ottoman Turkish: قله‎
  • Turkish: kule
  • → Bulgarian: кула (kula)
  • → Macedonian: кула (kula)
  • → Romanian: culă
  • → Serbo-Croatian: кула