لاله

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَالَه (lāla).

لاله (transliteration needed)

1. tulip

• Uyghur: لالە (lale)
• Uzbek: lola

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَالَه (lāla).

لاله • (lale)

1. tulip
2. brightly colored wildflower

• Turkish: lale
• → Albanian: lale
• → Aromanian: lalei, lalee
• → Bulgarian: лале́ (lalé)
• → Greek: λαλές (lalés)
• → Macedonian: лале (lale)
• → Romanian: lalea
• → Serbo-Croatian: lála / ла́ла

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

لاله • (lala)

1. a heavy iron ring around the neck

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لاله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1620

Likely from لال (lâl, literally “red”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Readings
Classical reading?	lāla
Dari reading?	lāla
Iranian reading?	lâle
Tajik reading?	lola

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لاله • (lâle) (plural لاله‌ها (lâle-hâ))

Dari	لاله
Iranian Persian
Tajik	лола

1. tulip

• → Arabic: لَعْلَع (laʕlaʕ)
• → Azerbaijani: lalə
• → Chagatai: لاله
  • Uyghur: لالە (lale)
  • Uzbek: lola
• → Gujarati: લાલો (lālo)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: लाला (lālā)

  Urdu: لالہ (lāla)

• → Ottoman Turkish: لاله (lale)
  • Turkish: lale
  • → Albanian: lale
  • → Aromanian: lalei, lalee
  • → Bulgarian: лале́ (lalé)
  • → Greek: λαλές (lalés)
  • → Macedonian: лале (lale)
  • → Romanian: lalea
  • → Serbo-Croatian: lála / ла́ла
• → Turkmen: läle

Dari	لاله
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Лола

لاله • (lâle)

1. a female given name, Lala, Laleh, Lale, Lola, or Lalah