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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian پلنگ (palang, “panther; leopard”).
Noun
پلنگ • (peleng)
- leopard, a large wild cat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus)
- Synonyms: بارس (bars), قپلان (kaplan), یوز (yuz)
- tiger, the largest living felid, indigenous of Asia (Panthera tigris)
- Synonym: قپلان (kaplan)
Derived terms
- پلنگی (pelengi, “the quality of a leopard”)
- پلنگین (pelengin, “leopard-like”)
- پلنگینه (pelengine, “coat or rug of leopard skin”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “peleng”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3814
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 324
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tigris”, 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 1673
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پلنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 883
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 452