آلن

Ottoman Turkish

آلن

Alternative forms

• آلین (alın)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ālïn (“forehead”); cognate with Azerbaijani alın, Karakhanid اَلِنْ (alïn) and Turkmen aalyn.

Noun

آلن • (alın)

1. forehead, the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline

   Synonyms: پیشانی (pişani), جبین (cebin)

Derived terms

• آلن یازیسی (alın yazısı, “the writing on the forehead”)
• آلنلق (alınlık, “frontlet; pediment”)
• آلنلو (alınlı, “having a large forehead”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: alın

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “alın”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 206
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آلن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 63b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 36
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Frons”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 618
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آلن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 401
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “alın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 190