Bulgarian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka).

Noun edit

пала́нка (palánkaf

  1. (archaic) small town, big village

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References edit

  • паланка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • Duridanov, I. V.; Racheva, M.; Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пала̀нка”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 21

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pǎlaːnka/
  • Hyphenation: па‧лан‧ка

Noun edit

па̀ла̄нка f (Latin spelling pàlānka)

  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

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Ukrainian edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka). Doublet of фала́нга (falánha).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

пала́нка (palánkaf inan (genitive пала́нки, nominative plural пала́нки, genitive plural пала́нок, relational adjective пала́нковий)

  1. (military, historical) a kind of small palisaded Cossack fortification
  2. (historical) an administration of a region of the Zaporozhian Sich

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