αλάνι

From Ottoman Turkish علن‎ (alen), from Arabic عَلَن‎ (ʿalan, “public”, noun).

• IPA^(key): /aˈlani/
• Hyphenation: α‧λά‧νι

αλάνι • (aláni) n (plural αλάνια)

1. (colloquial, obsolete) Alternative form of αλάνα (alána) (sense: vacant lot)
2. (colloquial, by extension) street urchin (child who lives, or spends most of his/her time, in the streets or in the above lot)

   Έχουν μαζευτεί όλα τα αλάνια της γειτονιάς και κάνουν θόρυβο. ― Échoun mazefteí óla ta alánia tis geitoniás kai kánoun thóryvo. ― All the street urchins of the neighbourhood have gathered and are making noise.

• αλάνα f (alána) (augmentative of) αλάνης
• αλάνης m (alánis, “carefree man of the streets, lout”), αλάνισσα f (alánissa)

• and see: χαμίνι n (chamíni)

• αλανιάρης (alaniáris, “carefree man of the streets, lout”, adjective, noun)
• αλανιάρικος (alaniárikos, “loutish”)
• αλάνικος (alánikos, “loutish”)

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “علن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3318