قلقان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaɫkan/

Noun

قلقان • (kalkan)

rondache, roundshield, a circular shield made of figwood covered with cords

Derived terms

قلقانلو‎ (kalkanlı, “shielded”)
قلقانلنمش‎ (kalkanlanmış, “shielded”)
قلقانجی‎ (kalkancı, “shield-maker or shield-seller”)
قلقانلنمق‎ (kalkanlanmak, “to equip oneself with a shield”)
قلقان بالغی‎ (kalkan balığı, “turbot”)

Descendants

Turkish: kalkan
→ Armenian: խալխան (xalxan), կալխան (kalxan)
→ Bulgarian: калка̀н (kalkàn)
→ Greek: καλκάνι (kalkáni)
→ Macedonian: калкан (kalkan)
→ Romanian: calcán
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̀лка̄н

Latin: kàlkān

References

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قلقان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3750
Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “قلقان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 707

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