آرسلان

See also: أرسلان and ارسلان

Ottoman Turkish

آرسلان

Alternative forms

• արսլան (arslan) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *arsïlan (“lion”); cognate with Azerbaijani arslan, Bashkir арыҫлан (arıślan), Chuvash арӑслан (arăslan), Kazakh арыстан (arystan), Kyrgyz арстан (arstan),Tatar арыслан (arıslan), Turkmen arslan, Uzbek arslon and Uyghur ئارسلان (arslan). For the ending, compare صرتلان (sırtlan, “hyena”), قپلان (kaplan, “leopard, tiger”) and ییلان (yılan, “snake”).

Noun

آرسلان • (arslan)

1. lion, any large felid of the species Panthera leo

   Synonyms: اسد (esed), شیر (şir), غضنفر (gazanfer), هزبر (hizebr)

2. (figuratively) lion, a strong, brave and valiant man

Derived terms

• آرسلان آغزی (arslan ağızı, “cock, tap”)
• آرسلان قویروغی (arslan kuyruğu, “motherwort”)
• آرسلان پنچه‌سی (arslan pençesi, “lady's mantle”)
• آرسلانجی (arslancı, “keeper of lions”)
• آرسلانلنمق (arslanlanmak, “to become brave and bold”)
• آرسلانلو (arslanlı, “populated by lions”)
• دیشی آرسلان (dişi arslan, “lioness”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: aslan
• → Albanian: asllan
• → Aromanian: aslan
• → Bulgarian: аслан (aslan)
• → Greek: ασλάνι (asláni)
• → Hungarian: arszlán
• → Macedonian: арслан (arslan)
• → Middle Armenian: ասլան (aslan)
  • Armenian: ասլան (aslan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aslan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 320
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آرسلان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 22b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرسلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 14
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Leo”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 934
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آرسلان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 142
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aslan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرسلان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 67