Ottoman Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *kalïŋ (thick; numerous).

Adjective edit

قالن (kalın)

  1. thick

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: kalın
  • Gagauz: kalın

References edit

  • Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 24
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قالین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1423