آلافرانغه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian alla franca.

Adjective

آلافرانغه • (alafranga)

  1. (music) in the European style
    Coordinate term: آلاتورقه (alaturka)
    • 1901 January 6, advertisement in İkdam, page 4:
      اولجه مشتریلرمزه و مد ایتدیكمز نادیده و یكی برچوق آلاتورقه و آلافرانغه هوالری محتوی بولنان حقیقی غراموفون پلاقلری بو كره اوروپادن ورود ایتمشدر.
      Evvelce müşterilerimize ve med ettiğimiz nadide ve yeni birçok alaturka ve alafranga havaları muhtevi bulunan hakiki gramofon plakları bu kere Avrupadan vürud etmiştir.
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Descendants

  • → Albanian: allafranga
  • → Armenian: (Constantinople) ալաֆըռանկա (alafəṙanka)
  • → English: alafranga

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951), “ալաֆըռանկա”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 56–57
  • Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), “alafranga”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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