kalkan

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Turkish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish قلقان (kalkan), possibly from Proto-Turkic *Kạl(ɨ)- (kalk(ɨ)-), to rise, to soar; through the addition of the suffixes -ık and -an.[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani qalxan, Karakalpak qalqan, Kazakh қалқан (qalqan), Kyrgyz калкан (kalkan), Turkmen galkan, Uzbek qalqon. However, Nişanyan suspects a Mongolian borrowing, based on the verbal cognate qalqa(n), to shield.[2]

In the sense of a fish, the term is short for kalkan balığı, following the shape of the latter.

Noun

kalkan (definite accusative kalkanı, plural kalkanlar)

  1. shield
  2. turbot
Declension
Inflection
Nominative kalkan
Definite accusative kalkanı
Singular Plural
Nominative kalkan kalkanlar
Definite accusative kalkanı kalkanları
Dative kalkana kalkanlara
Locative kalkanda kalkanlarda
Ablative kalkandan kalkanlardan
Genitive kalkanın kalkanların

References

Etymology 2

Verb

kalkan

  1. present participle of kalkmak