Ottoman Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Hungarian palánk, from Latin phalanga.

Noun edit

پلانقه (palanka)

  1. a kind of palisaded fortification erected by the Ottomans most notably in border regions and at communication routes, fort, redoubt
Descendants edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Italian paranco, from Latin phalanga..

Noun edit

پلانقه (palanka)

  1. a machine with two pulleys to hoist load by spinning wheels, polyspast, muffle, block and tackle
Descendants edit

References edit

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلانقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 323
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پلانقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 883
  • Turhal, Abdullah (2009) “Osmanlı kalelerinden: Palanka”, in Askeri Tarih Notları[3] (in Turkish), number 8, archived from the original on 9 May 2019 (with images)
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پلانقه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 170