اركان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic أَرْكَان (ʔarkān), plural of رُكْن (rukn).

Noun

اركان • (erkân)

1. great men, high officials

   اركان حربیه ― erkân-i harbiye ― general staff (literally, “high military officers”)

2. fundamentals (of science, etc.)

Descendants

• Turkish: erkân

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “erkân”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian