لوا

Arabic

Verb

لُوا • (lū) (form I)

1. second-person masculine plural active imperative of وَلِيَ (waliya)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لِوَاء (liwāʔ, “flag, banner, standard”).

Noun

لوا • (liva) (plural الویه (elviya))

1. flag, banner, standard, ensign

   Synonyms: بیراق (bayrak), رایت (rayet), سنجاق (sancak), علم (ʿalem)

2. sanjak, the second level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire

   Synonym: سنجاق (sancak)

3. (military) brigade, a military unit composed of several regiments

Derived terms

• میر لوا (mîr-i livā, “brigadier general”)

Descendants

• Turkish: liva

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “liva”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2973
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1082a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vexillum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1750
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لوا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4201
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “liva”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1642