آلافرانغه
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian alla franca.
Adjective
[edit]آلافرانغه • (alafranga)
- (music) in the European style
- Antonym: آلاتورقه (alaturka)
- 1901 January 6, advertisement in İkdam, page 4:
- اولجه مشتریلرمزه و مد ایتدیكمز نادیده و یكی برچوق آلاتورقه و آلافرانغه موالری محتوی بولنان حقیقی غراموفون پلاقلری بو كره اوروپادن ورود ایتمشدر.
- Evvelce müşterilerimize ve med ettiğimiz nadide ve yeni birçok alaturka ve alafranga havaları muhtevi bulunan hakiki gramofon plakları bu kere Avrupadan vürud etmişdir.
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Descendants
[edit]- → Albanian: allafranga
- → Armenian: (Constantinople) ալաֆըռանկա (alafəṙanka)
Further reading
[edit]- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951) “ալաֆըռանկա”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 56–57
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “alafranga”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN