مدللی

Ottoman Turkish

مدللی

Alternative forms

• مدللو (Midilli), مدلی (Midilli)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μῠτῐλήνη (Mutilḗnē), which referred both to the island of Lesbos and its main city Mytilene. The relation between the name of the island and the breed of small horses is unclear.

Proper noun

مدللی • (midilli)

1. Lesbos (an island in the North Aegean region, Greece).
2. Mytilene (a city in the island of Lesbos, Greece).

Descendants

• Turkish: Midilli
• → Armenian: Միտիլլի (Mitilli)

Noun

مدللی

مدللی • (midilli)

1. pony, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers

Descendants

• Turkish: midilli
• → Armenian: միտիլլի (mitilli)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “midilli1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3213
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مدللی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1141
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مدللی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 4524
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “midilli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مدللو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1789
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) chapter MIDILLI, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[4], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 553