palanka

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See also: palaṅka

English

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka). Doublet of planch, plank, and phalanx.

Noun

palanka (plural palankas)

  1. (military, historical) A permanently entrenched wooden camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “palanka”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǎlaːnka/
  • Hyphenation: pa‧lan‧ka

Noun

pàlānka f (Cyrillic spelling па̀ла̄нка)

  1. a small town on the Balkans
  2. a type of wooden fortress on the roads of Ottoman Empire built for the protection of travelers

Declension

Declension of palanka
singular plural
nominative pàlānka palanke
genitive palanke pàlanākā / pàlānkī
dative pàlānci palankama
accusative palanku palanke
vocative palanko palanke
locative pàlānci palankama
instrumental palankom palankama

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka), from Hungarian palánk, from Latin phalanga.

Pronunciation

Noun

palanka (definite accusative palankayı, plural palankalar)

  1. palanka (a permanently entrenched camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative palanka
Definite accusative palankayı
Singular Plural
Nominative palanka palankalar
Definite accusative palankayı palankaları
Dative palankaya palankalara
Locative palankada palankalarda
Ablative palankadan palankalardan
Genitive palankanın palankaların
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