el.
hand
Meaning & usage
hand
possession
elindeki her şeyi satmış
round (stage of a sports competition)
Her el sona kalan adam sensin.
round (individual ammunition shell)
İki el sıktı, ikisini de ıskaladı, sonra da bıçaklamaya çalıştı.
handle
because, cause
onun elinden bir sürü şey çekti
Where this word comes from
From Ottoman Turkish ال (el), from Old Anatolian Turkish ال (el), from Proto-Turkic *elig (“hand”), may be related to Proto-Turkic *al- (“to take”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰠𐰏 (elig), Uzbek ilik, Turkmen el, Gagauz el, Salar el, Southern Altai элӱ (elü, “wide finger”), Chuvash алӑ (ală), etc.
country, homeland, province
tribe
a foreign person
other people; foreigners, strangers any other person than oneself; others, other people
other people; foreigners, strangers any other person than the oneself and the people the spoken to
other people; foreigners, strangers any person that the one does not know or recognize, strangers, foreigners
other people; foreigners, strangers any person that is not a part of one's nation, tribe, family, clan etc.
land, territory, region
city
residents of a certain place
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ایل (el), from Old Anatolian Turkish ایل (ẹl), from Proto-Turkic *ēl (“realm”). Doublet of il. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (él), Kazakh ел (el), Azerbaijani el, etc.
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