# علاج
## Arabic
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕi.laːd͡ʒ/

### Noun

عِلَاج • (ʕilāj) m
* verbal noun of عَالَجَ (ʕālaja) (form III)
* remedy, cure
* therapy

#### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: علاج (ʼilac)
** > Turkish: ilaç (inherited)
** → Albanian: ilaç
** → Armenian: իլաճ (ilač), իլաջ (ilaǰ)
** → Bulgarian: ила́ч (iláč)
** → Aromanian: ileaci / ileace
** → Laz: ლაჯი (laci), ილაჯი (ilaci) — Artasheni, Arkabi
* → Northern Kurdish: îlac
* → Classical Persian: علاج (ilāj)
** → Azerbaijani: əlac
** → Bengali: এলাজ (elaj)
** → Gujarati: ઇલાજ (ilāj)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: इलाज (ilāj)
    Urdu: عِلَاج ('ilāj)
** → Marathi: इलाज़ (ilāj̈)
** → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਇਲਾਜ (ilāj)
    Shahmukhi script: عِلاج (ʻilāj)
* → Uyghur: ئىلاج (ilaj)
* → Uzbek: iloj

### References

* “علاج” in Almaany

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِلَاج (ʕilāj, “remedy, cure”).

### Noun

علاج • (ʼilâc) (definite accusative علاجی (ʼilâcı), plural علاجلر (ʼilâclar))
* remedy, cure, healing, a medicine or treatment that relieves a disease or illness
    Synonyms: چاره (çare), درمان (derman), دوا (deva)
* medicine, drug, medication, any substance which specifically promotes healing
    Synonym: ام (em)

#### Derived terms

* بی علاج (bî ʼilâc, “irremediable”)
* علاج ایتمك (ʼilâc etmek, “to administer a medicine”)
* علاج بولمق (ʼilâc bolmak, “to find a cure”)
* علاج حقه‌سی (ʼilâc hokkası, “gallipot”)
* علاج پذیر (ʼilâc pezir, “curable”)
* علاجسز (ʼilâcsız, “irremediable”)
* علاجلامق (ʼilâclamak, “to medicate”)
* علاجلو (ʼilâclı, “medicated”)
* لا علاج (lâ ʼilâc, “through sheer necessity”)

#### Descendants

* > Turkish: ilaç (inherited)
* → Albanian: ilaç
* → Armenian: իլաճ (ilač), իլաջ (ilaǰ)
* → Bulgarian: ила́ч (iláč)
* → Aromanian: ileaci / ileace
* → Laz: ლაჯი (laci), ილაჯი (ilaci) — Artasheni, Arkabi

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “علاج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 364
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ilaç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2133
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ilâc”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 510
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “علاج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 855
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Remedium”, 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, Vienna, column 1458
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “علاج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 3307-3308
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ilaç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “علاج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1315

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian علاج ('ilāj), from Arabic عِلَاج (ʕilāj).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /(ʔ)ɪ.lɑːd͡ʒ/
* Hyphenation: عِ‧لَاج
* Rhymes: -ɑːd͡ʒ

### Noun

عِلَاج • ('ilāj) m (Hindi spelling इलाज)
* medical treatment
* cure
* remedy

### Further reading

* “علاج”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “علاج”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 437