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 (lelaġ)
• → Bulgarian: лю́ляк (ljúljak), ли́ляк (líljak), ли́лек (lílek); лю́лек (ljúlek), люле́к (ljulék); люляка f (ljuljaka)
• → Polish: lilak (also from French)
• → Romanian: liliac
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: љи́љак

  Latin script: ljíljak

• → Ukrainian: лілія́к (liliják) (dialectal, also from French)