آلپ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *alp (“difficult, hard; warrior, hero, brave; giant, landlord”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰞𐰯 (l¹p /⁠alp⁠/), Khakas алып (alıp, “hero”), Kazakh алып (alyp, “giant”), Tatar алып (alıp, “giant”), Yakut алып (alıp, “craftiness, deception, magic”).

Adjective

آلپ • (alp)

1. brave, hero

Descendants

• Turkish: alp

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “alp”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Sergei Starostin, Vladimir Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003), Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers (Etymology: *ălp)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French Alpes.

Proper noun

آلپ • (Alp)

1. the Alps

   Synonym: آلپلر (Alpler)

Derived terms

• آشاغی آلپ (Aşağı Alp, “Basses-Alpes”)
• ساحلی آلپ (Sâhılî Alp, “Alpes-Maritimes”)
• یوقاری آلپ (Yukarı Alp, “Hautes-Alpes”)

Descendants

• Turkish: Alp

Further reading

• Şemseddin Sami (1889) “آلپ”, in Kâmûsü'l-A'lâm (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, Constantinople: Mihran, page 298

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Alpes.

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːlp]

Readings
Iranian reading?	âlp

Proper noun

آلپ • (âlp)

1. the Alps