التجا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِلْتِجَاء (iltijāʔ, “refuge, shelter”), verbal noun from إِلْتَجَأَ (ʔiltajaʔa).

Noun

التجا • (iltica)

1. refuge, shelter, any place providing safety and protection

Derived terms

• التجا ایتمك (iltica etmek, “to take shelter”)

Descendants

• Turkish: iltica

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iltica”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2154
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ilticâ'”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 514
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “التجا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 132
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “التجا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 378
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iltica”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “التجا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 182