آلاك
Ottoman Turkish
editAlternative forms
edit- آلان (alan), الاڭ (ılañ), الان (ılan)
- ալանկ (alang /alañ/) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
editFrom Common Turkic *alaŋ (“level ground, plain”). Cognate with Azerbaijani alan and Old Turkic [script needed] (alaŋ).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editآلاڭ • (alañ)
- glade, plain ground or open space sheltered between mountains or forest trees or houses in a town or the like
Descendants
edit- Turkish: alan
- → Armenian: ալանկ (alank)
- → Bulgarian: ала́н (alán)
- → Greek: αλάνι (aláni), αλάνα (alána)
- → Macedonian: алан (alan)
References
edit- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 32b
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلاك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 180b
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “ylâg الاك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 85a