world · universe, cosmos, existence · world, hereunder, worldly life
çekim: çoğul عَالَمُون · tamlayan عَالَمٍ
köken: Borrowed from Aramaic עָלְמָא / ܥܳܠܡܳܐ (ʿāləmā) or Hebrew עוֹלָם (ʿōlām), possibly from Akkadian 𒂖𒆷𒈬𒌋𒀀 (/ellamu, illamu/, “front, before; both temporally and in location; coming before your time or being currently physically before you now”). The pattern فَاعَل (fāʕal) The pattern فَاعَل (fāʕal) is considered originally foreign to Arabic and Ethiopic, occurring only in likely loanwords such as…
universe; cosmos; macrocosm; space · roof, ridgepole and beams (of a house) · heaven and earth; all under heaven; country
köken: Attested in several pre-Qin texts. Meyer (2010) proposes that "eaves and roof beams" was a synecdoche for a domicile's entire space; this figure of speech would later be appropriated by early authors and later Huainanziʼs contributors as "a metaphor for the cosmos, taking “eaves” [宇] and “roof beams” [宙] to represent the dimensions of space and time[, respectively] that compose the entire…
cosmos, universe (the Universe) · outer space (the region of space immediately beyond Earth's atmosphere) · cosmos (whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting)
Borrowed from Arabic عَالَم (ʕālam, “world, universe”). Cognate with Bashkir ғәләм (ğələm), Kyrgyz аалам (aalam, “universe”), etc. Doublet of әлем (älem).