لیلاق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic لَيْلَك‎ (laylak).

Noun

لیلاق • (leylak)

  1. lilac
    Synonym: پاسقالیه‎ (paskalya)

Descendants
  • Turkish: leylak
  • → Albanian: llullaq, lilak, lailak, laila
  • → Armenian: լեյլախ (leylax), լելաղ (lelał)
  • → Bulgarian: лю̀ляк (ljùljak), лѝля̀к (lìljàk), лю̀лѐк (ljùlѐk), лѝлек (lìlek), лула̀к (lulàk)
  • → Polish: lilak (also from French)
  • → Romanian: liliac
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: љи́љак
    Latin: ljíljak
  • → Ukrainian: лілія́к (liliják) (dialectal, also from French)

References
  • Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1986), “лѝляк”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 403
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