الهام

Borrowed from Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām, “inspiration”).

الهام • (ilhâm) (definite accusative الهامی (ilhâmı), plural الهامات (ilhâmât))

1. (religion) revelation, the disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity

   Synonym: وحی (vahiy)

2. (religion) inspiration, a divine influence on sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority

   Synonym: وحی (vahiy)

3. (by extension) inspiration, afflatus, afflation, entheasm, a sudden rush of creative impulse or stimulation, often attributed to divine influence

• Turkish: ilham

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “ilham”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2141
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “ilhâm”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 512
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “الهام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 140
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Inspiratio”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 830
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “الهام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 404
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ilham”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “الهام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 191

Borrowed from Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām).

الهام • (elhâm) (plural الهام‌ها)

1. inspiration

الهام • (elhâm)

1. a male or female given name, Elham or Ilham, from Arabic