پلنگ
Khalaj edit
Noun edit
پَلَنگ (palang or pələng) (definite accusative پَلَنگی or پَلَنگؽ, plural پَلَنگلَر or پَلَنگلار)
Declension edit
Declension of پلنگ
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Persian پلنگ (palang, “panther; leopard”).
Noun edit
پلنگ • (peleng)
- leopard, a large wild cat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus)
- tiger, the largest living felid, indigenous of Asia (Panthera tigris)
- Synonym: قپلان (kaplan)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “peleng”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3814
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلنگ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], 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[2], Vienna, column 1673
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پلنگ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 883
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلنگ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 452
Persian edit
Etymology edit
Compare to Bactrian πορλαγγο-ζινο (porlaggo-zino), Pashto پړانګ (pṙâng), Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”), and Ancient Greek πάρδαλις (párdalis).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [pa.ˈlanɡ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [pʰæ.lǽɲɡʲ̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [pʰä.lǽŋɡ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | palang |
Dari reading? | palang |
Iranian reading? | palang |
Tajik reading? | palang |
Noun edit
Dari | پلنگ |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | паланг |
پَلَنْگ • (palang) (plural پلنگها (palang-hâ))
Derived terms edit
- پلنگی (palangi)
Descendants edit
Urdu edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /pə.ləŋɡ/