حلقه

See also: حلقة and خلقة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَلْقَة (ḥalqa, “ring, loop”).

Noun

حلقه • (halka) (plural حلق or حالق)

1. ring, hoop, any solid object in the shape of a circle

   Synonyms: اطار (itar), چنبر (çember), خاتم (hatem), یوزوك (yüzük)

2. link, a circular element of a chain or other connected series

   Synonym: باقلا (bakla)

Derived terms

• حلقه بند (halka-bend, “who joins rings or links”)
• حلقه زن (halka-zen, “who knocks the ring of a door”)
• حلقهجی (halkacı, “maker or seller of rings”)
• حلقهلتمق (halkalatmak, “to be furnished with rings”)
• حلقهلنمق (halkalanmak, “to become a ring”)
• حلقهلو (halkalı, “furnished with rings”)

Descendants

• Turkish: halka
• → Armenian: խալխա (xalxa), խալաղա (xalaġa), հալկա (halka)
• → Romanian: halca

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “halka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1852
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “حلقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 516
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Annulus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 65
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “حلقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1798
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “halka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “حلقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 801

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَلْقَة (ḥalqa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /hal.ˈqa/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häl.qä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häl.qä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäl.qä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäl.qä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæl.ɢe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [häl.qä]

Readings
Classical reading?	halqa
Dari reading?	halqa
Iranian reading?	halġe
Tajik reading?	halqa

Noun

Dari	حلقه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳалқа

حلقه • (halqa / halġe) (plural حلقه‌ها (halqa-hā / halġe-hâ), Tajik spelling ҳалқа)

1. ring

   Synonym: انگشتر (angoštar)

2. hoop
3. circle

   Synonyms: دایره (dâyere), پرهون (parhun), چنبر (čanbar)

Derived terms

adjectives

• حلقه‌ای (halqe-'i, “ring-like, circular”)
• حلقه‌وار (halqe-vâr, “ring-shaped, orbicular”)

nouns

• حلقه به گوش (halqe be guš, “slave”, literally “hoops on ears”)