قرال

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From a South Slavic language; compare Proto-Slavic *korľь (“king”) (Serbo-Croatian krȃlj/кра̑љ, Bulgarian крал (kral), Slovene králj). Ultimately from Old High German Karl, name of the Frankish ruler Charlemagne.

Noun

قرال • (kral)

king

Derived terms

قرالانه (kralane)
قراللق (krallık)
قرالی (krali)
قرالیت (kraliyet)
قرالیچه (kraliçe)

Descendants

Turkish: kral
- → Northern Kurdish: kral, qral
→ Azerbaijani: kral
→ Crimean Tatar: qıral

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قرال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 952
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1443

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