قرال

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From a South Slavic language; compare Proto-Slavic *korľь (“king”) (Serbo-Croatian krȃlj/кра̑љ, Bulgarian крал (kral), Slovene králj). Ultimately from Old High German Karl, name of the Frankish ruler Charlemagne.

Noun

قرال • (kral)

1. king

Derived terms

• قرالانه (kralane)
• قراللق (krallık)
• قرالی (krali)
• قرالیت (kraliyet)
• قرالیچه (kraliçe)

Descendants

• Turkish: kral
  • → Northern Kurdish: kral, qral
• → Azerbaijani: kral
• → Crimean Tatar: qıral

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قرال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 952
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1443