колан

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قولان‎ (kolan), itself perhaps from Italian collana (“necklace”)[1]. Compare Serbo-Croatian колан/kolan (“girth”).

Noun

колан • (kolán) m

  1. girdle, belt

References
  1. Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1979), “колан”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; the Italian origin of the Turkish word proposed by acad. Stefan Mladenov is described there as unconvincing, неубедително

Macedonian

Noun

колан • (kolan) m

  1. belt

Inflection
Declension of колан
singular plural
indefinite колан колани
definite unspecified коланот коланите
definite proximal коланов коланиве
definite distal коланон коланине
vocative колану колани
count form — колана

Nanai

Noun

колан (kolan)

  1. insect
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