بللی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بللو (bellü)

Etymology

From earlier بللو (bellü), from Proto-Turkic *bẹlgü-lig (“manifest”), a derivation of Proto-Turkic *bẹl- (“to denote, to designate”); cognate with Azerbaijani bəlli, Karakhanid بَلْكُلُكْ (belgülüg) and Kazakh белгілі (belgılı).

Adjective

بللی • (belli)

1. known, famous, notorious, renowned, well-known

   Synonym: معلوم (ma'lum)

2. obvious, clear, evident, apparent, manifest, visible

   Synonyms: آچق (açık), آشكار (aşikâr), ظاهر (zahir), منجلی (münceli)

Derived terms

• بللی اولمق (belli olmak, “to be known”)
• بللی ایتمك (belli etmek)
• بللی باشلو (belli başlı, “notable”)
• بللیسز (bellisiz, “unknown”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: belli
• → Armenian: պելլի (pelli), բա̈լո̈ւ (bälü), պելնի (pelni)
• → Laz: ბელლი (belli)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “belli3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 542
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بللو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 125b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بللی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 276b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Notus”, 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 1151
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بللی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 879
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “belli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بللی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 383