# آلچی
## Chagatai
### Alternative forms

* آلچو (alçı)

### Etymology

Of Turkic origin, but the root is uncertain.

### Noun

آلچی (alçı)
* gypsum, plaster

### References

* Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “آلچی”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎ (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 31

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* آلچو (alçı, alçu)

### Etymology

Unclear. According to Nishanyan, from Proto-Turkic *alču (“gypsum”), perhaps a variant of *ašu (“ochre”); if so, doublet of آشی (aşı, “ochre”). Cognate with Chagatai آلچی (alçı).

### Noun

آلچی • (alçı) (definite accusative آلچیی (alçıyı), plural آلچیلر (alçılar))
* gypsum, plaster-stone, a mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate, used as a fertilizer or as a constituent of plaster
    Synonym: آلچی طاشی (alçı taşı)
* plaster of Paris, a hemihydrate of calcium sulfate, made by calcining gypsum, that hardens when moistened and allowed to dry

#### Derived terms

* آلچی ایشی (alçı işi, “plasterwork”)
* آلچی طاشی (alçı taşı, “gypsum, plaster-stone”)
* آلچیلاتمق (alçılatmak, “to make or let be plastered”)
* آلچیلامق (alçılamak, “to plaster, render”)
* آلچیلانمق (alçılanmak, “to be plastered or rendered”)
* آلچیلی (alçılı, “containing gypsum or plaster”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: alçı
* → Albanian: allçi
* → Armenian: ալչի (alčʻi)
* → Aromanian: álcie
* → Bulgarian: алчи́я (alčíja)
* → Serbo-Croatian: (regional, obsolete)
    Cyrillic script: алчѝја
    Latin script: alčìja

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آلچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 105
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “alçı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 197
* Eren, Hasan (1999) “alçı”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, pages 8a–b
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آلچی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 61a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 34b
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gypsum”, 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 679
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آلچو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 384
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “alçı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “56. ÁLČIE sb. f.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 77
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلچی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 184

## Urdu
### Etymology

From Chagatai آلچی (alçı)

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɑːl.t͡ʃiː/

### Noun

آلْچِی • (ālcī) m (Hindi spelling आलची)
* one who catches or seizes

### References

* “آلچی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آلچی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* “آلچی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.