şehla

See also: Şehla and sehla

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَهْلَاء (šahlāʔ), feminine singular of أَشْهَل (ʔašhal).

Adjective

şehla

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Derived terms
  • nêrgiza şehla

Turkish

Alternative forms
  • şehlâ

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish شهلا (şehla), from Arabic شَهْلَاء (šahlāʔ), feminine singular of أَشْهَل (ʔašhal).[1] The meaning “squinting, squint-eyed” is an invention of Ottoman Turkish (not found in Arabic),[1] which likely stemmed from confusion with Arabic حَوْلَاء (ḥawlāʔ) (whence Ottoman Turkish حولا (havla)), with which the word شَهْلَاء (šahlāʔ) occurred in Arabic incantations against the evil eye.[2] See evil eye in Turkey.

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: şeh‧la

Adjective

şehla

  1. (obsolete; of eyes) of a bluish or light grey color[1]
  2. (obsolete) whose eyes are bluish or light grey in color[1]
  3. squinting, squint-eyed[1]
    Synonym: şaşı

Derived terms
  • şehlalaşmak
  • şehlalık

References
  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شهلا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1144
  2. Ford (1998) “"Ninety-Nine by the Evil Eye and One from Natural Causes": KTU2 1.96 in its Near Eastern Context”, in Ugarit-Forschungen‎, volume 30, page 262
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