mülga

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ملغی (mülga), a late Ottoman borrowing from Arabic مُلْغًى (mulḡan), passive participle of أَلْغَى (ʔalḡā, “to cancel”).

Adjective

mülga (archaic)

1. abolished
2. suppressed

Related terms

• ilga
• lağıv

See also

• kaldırmak

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mülga”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 860
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ملغا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1221
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mülga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN