بالیوس

See also: باليوس

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

بالیوز (balyoz)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish, from Venetian bailo (“title of a Venetian ambassador”), from Old Occitan baile, from Latin baiulus (“porter; steward”).

Noun

بالیوٓس • (balyos)

title of the Venetian ambassador to the Sublime Porte
title of any European envoy

Descendants

→ Arabic: باليوس (balyōs), باليوز (balyōz)
- → Swahili: balozi (“ambassador”)
→ Albanian: bajloz, baloz
→ Armenian: պալիոզ (palioz), պալիոս (palios), պալեոզ (paleoz), պալյոզ (palyoz); պալիօզ (paliōz), պալիօս (paliōs), պալյօզ (palyōz)
→ Northern Kurdish: balyoz
→ Turkish: balyoz (learned)

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالیوس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335

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