اصلا

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Khalaj

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Adverb

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اَصلاً (aslən)

  1. Arabic spelling of aslən (not at all)

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Arabic أَصْلًا (ʔaṣlan).

Adverb

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اصلاً (aslen)

  1. originally
  2. essentially

Descendants

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  • Turkish: aslen

Adverb

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اصلا (asla)

  1. never, not at all

Descendants

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See also

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Further reading

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  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “asla”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “aslan 2”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اصلا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 102b

Persian

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Alternative forms

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  • اصن (asan) (colloquial, Tehran)

Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic أَصْلًا (ʔaṣlan).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? aslan, aslā
Dari reading? aslan, aslā
Iranian reading? aslan
Tajik reading? aslo

Adverb

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Dari اصلا
Iranian Persian
Tajik асло

اصلاً or اصلا (aslan or aslâ)

  1. (with a negated verb) not at all
    Synonyms: به هیچ وجه (be hêč vajh), حاشا و کلا (hâšâ va kallâ), به هیچ روی (be hêč rôy)
    • c. 1260, Rumi, “2:1675”, in The Masnavi:
      ز ان نشان با والد یحیی بگفت، که نیایی تا سه روز اصلا به گفت.
      z-ân nešân bâ vâled-e yahya be-goft, ke nay-âyi tâ se ruz aslan be goft.
      Concerning that [last-mentioned] sign, [God] said to the father of Yahya, "You shall not begin to speak at all until three days [have passed]."
      (adapted from the Reynold A. Nicholson translation)
  2. originally

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian اصلاً (aslan), from Arabic أَصْلًا (ʔaṣlan).

Adverb

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اصلا (aslan) (Hindi spelling असलन)

  1. actually, genuinely, radically