From Ottoman Turkish آرسلان (arslan).
aslan m (feminine aslanã, plural aslanj, feminine plural aslani or aslane)
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *arsïlan (“lion”).
aslan (definite accusative aslanı, plural aslanlar)
| Declension of aslan | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| nominative | aslan |
aslanlar | ||||||
| definite accusative | aslanı |
aslanları | ||||||
| dative | aslana |
aslanlara | ||||||
| locative | aslanda |
aslanlarda | ||||||
| ablative | aslandan |
aslanlardan | ||||||
| definite genitive | aslanın |
aslanların | ||||||
From earlier arslan, from Ottoman Turkish آرسلان (arslan), from Proto-Turkic *arsïlan, equivalent to arsıl (“auburn, brown”) + -lan (suffix denoting a wild, predatory animal). Compare kaplan (“tiger”), yılan (“snake”), sırtlan (“hyena”).
Cognate with Azerbaijani arslan, Bashkir арыҫлан (arıślan), Crimean Tatar arslan, Chuvash арӑслан (arăslan), Kazakh арыстан (arystan), Kyrgyz арстан (arstan), Tatar арыслан (arıslan), Turkmen arslan, Uzbek arslon, Uyghur ئارسلان (arslan).
Compare Erzya арыслан (arislan), Kalmyk арслң (arslñ), Mongolian арслан (arslan, “lion”). Compare the Turkic borrowings Hungarian oroszlán, Adyghe аслъан (aslˢan), Middle Armenian ասլան (aslan), and the given names Persian ارسلان (arsalân), اصلان (aslân), Arabic أَصْلَان (ʔaṣlān).
aslan (definite accusative aslanı, plural aslanlar)
Borrowed from Arabic أَصْلًا (ʔaṣlan), adverbial accusative of أَصْل (ʔaṣl). By surface analysis, asl + -an. Compare Azerbaijani əsla and Turkish aslen.
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