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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
According to Nishanyan, a vulgarized form of Persian پهلوان (pahlevân, “hero, paladin; wrestler”), but compare Crimean Tatar balaban, Karaim балабан and Urum балабан. Doublet of پهلوان (pehlivân, “oil wrestler”).
Adjective
بالابان • (balaban)
- large, great, big, huge, of relatively great size or extent
- Synonyms: اولو (ulu), ایری (iri), بیوك (büyük), قوجه (koca)
Noun
بالابان • (balaban)
- giant, colossus, any abnormally huge person or animal
- goshawk, any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter
- sort of very large drum
- tame bear
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Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “بالابان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 276
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بلابان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 124a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالابان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 246
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Immensus”, 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 737
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بلابان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 870
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “balaban”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالابان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 333