الما

الما • (alma)

1. Arabic spelling of алма (alma).

• آلما (alma)

Inherited from Common Turkic *alma; cognate with Azerbaijani alma, Bashkir алма (alma), Kazakh алма (alma), Kyrgyz алма (alma), Turkmen alma, Uyghur ئالما (alma) and Uzbek olma.

• IPA^(key): [el.ˈmɑ]

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الما • (elma) (definite accusative المایی (elmayı), plural المالر (elmalar))

1. apple, a common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica

   Synonyms: تفاح (tuffah), سیب (sib)

2. (by extension) anything that resembles an apple, such as a globe or ball

• Turkish: elma
• → Middle Armenian: Էլմա (Ēlma)

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• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “الما”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 399
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “elma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “الما”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 189