زلال

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Arabic

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Root
ز ل ل (z l l)
2 terms

Pronunciation

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Noun

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زُلَال (zulālm

  1. limpid, pure, clear (of water, etc)
  2. egg white, albumen
  3. (medicine, chemistry) albumin

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Azerbaijani: zülal
  • Central Kurdish: زوڵاڵ (zullall)
  • Northern Kurdish: zelal, زه‌لال (zelal)
  • Persian: زلال
  • Ottoman Turkish: زلال (zülal)
  • Uzbek: zilol

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Arabic زُلَال (zulāl).

Noun

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زلال (zülal)

  1. cold, clear, pure water
  2. (chemistry) albumin
    تبول زلالtebevvül-i zülalalbuminuria
  3. albumen

Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زلال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 645b

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic زُلَال (zulāl).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? zulāl
Dari reading? zulāl
Iranian reading? zolâl
Tajik reading? zulol

Adjective

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زلال (zolâl)

  1. pure, limpid (of liquid)
    آب زلالâb-e zolâlpure water

Noun

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زلال (zolâl)

  1. pure, limpid water
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 114”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎[2]:
      چو جان فدای لبش شد خیال می‌بستم
      که قطره‌ای ز زلالش به کام ما افتد
      čū jān fidā-yi lab-aš šud xayāl mē-bastam
      ke qatra'ē zi zulāl-aš ba kām-i mā uftad
      When I sacrificed my soul to her lips, I had the dream
      That a single drop from her pure water would fall into my mouth.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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