اصلا

اَصلاً (aslən)

1. Arabic spelling of aslən (“not at all”)

From Arabic أَصْلًا (ʔaṣlan).

اصلاً • (aslen)

1. originally
2. essentially

• Turkish: aslen

اصلا • (asla)

1. never, not at all

• Turkish: asla

• آصلان (aslan, “lion”)

• 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] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 102b

• اصن (asan) (colloquial, Tehran)

Borrowed from Arabic أَصْلًا (ʔaṣlan).

اصلا • (aslan or aslā / aslâ) (Tajik spelling аслан or асло)

1. (with negation or not) not at all

   Synonyms: به هیچ وجه (ba hēč wajh / be hič vajh), حاشا و کلا (hāšā wa kallā / hâšâ va kallâ), به هیچ روی (ba hēč rōy / be hič ruy)

   • c. 1260, Rumi, “2:1675”, in The Masnavi:

     ز ان نشان با والد یحیی بگفت، که نیایی تا سه روز اصلا به گفت.

     z-ān nišān bā wālid yahyā ba guft, ki nayāyī tā si rōz aslan ba guft.

     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]."

     (Classical Persian romanization)

2. originally

• The pronunciation is aslan in Iranian Persian, but aslā is also used in other dialects.

• → Azerbaijani: əsla
• → Hindustani:

  Urdu: اصلاً (aslan)

• → Khalaj: aslən
• → Uzbek: aslo
• → Uyghur: ئەسلا (esla)

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

اصلا • (aslan) (Hindi spelling असलन)

1. actually, genuinely, radically