پلنگ

Khalaj

Noun

پَلَنگ (palang or pələng) (definite accusative پَلَنگی or پَلَنگؽ, plural پَلَنگلَر or پَلَنگلار)

1. Arabic spelling of palang, pələng (“leopard, tiger”)

Declension

Declension of پلنگ

	singular	plural
nominative	پلنگ	پلنگلار
genitive	پلنگؽݧ	پلنگلارؽݧ
dative	پلنگقا	پلنگلارقا
definite accusative	پلنگؽ	پلنگلارؽ
locative	پلنگچا	پلنگلارچا
ablative	پلنگدا	پلنگلاردا
instrumental	پلنگلا	پلنگلارلا
equative	پلنگوارا	پلنگلاروارا

Declension of پلنگ

	singular	plural
nominative	پلنگ	پلنگلَر
genitive	پلنگۆݧ	پلنگلَریݧ
dative	پلنگکه	پلنگلَرکه
definite accusative	پلنگۆ	پلنگلَری
locative	پلنگچه	پلنگلَرچه
ablative	پلنگده	پلنگلَرده
instrumental	پلنگله	پلنگلَرله
equative	پلنگوارا	پلنگلَروارا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پلنگ (palang, “panther; leopard”).

Noun

پلنگ • (peleng)

1. leopard, a large wild cat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus)

   Synonyms: بارس (bars), قپلان (kaplan), یوز (yuz)

2. tiger, the largest living felid, indigenous of Asia (Panthera tigris)

   Synonym: قپلان (kaplan)

Derived terms

• پلنگی (pelengi, “the quality of a leopard”)
• پلنگین (pelengin, “leopard-like”)
• پلنگینه (pelengine, “coat or rug of leopard skin”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: peleng
• → Armenian: փէլէնկ (pʻēlēnk)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “peleng”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3814
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلنگ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 324
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tigris”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1673
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پلنگ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 883
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلنگ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 452

Persian

پلنگ

Etymology

Compare to Bactrian πορλαγγο-ζινο (porlaggo-zino), Pashto پړانګ (pṙâng), Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”), and Ancient Greek πάρδαλις (párdalis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pa.ˈlanɡ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.lǽŋɡ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.lǽŋɡ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰä.lǽŋɡ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰä.lǽŋɡ̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæ.lǽɲɡʲ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.lǽŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading?	palang
Dari reading?	palang
Iranian reading?	palang
Tajik reading?	palang

Noun

Dari	پلنگ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	паланг

پَلَنْگ • (palang) (plural پلنگ‌ها (palang-hâ))

1. panther
2. leopard

Derived terms

• پلنگی (palangi)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: pələng (“tiger”)
• → Khalaj: palang (“tiger, leopard”)

Urdu

Etymology

From Sanskrit पर्यङ्क (paryaṅka).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pə.ləŋɡ/

Noun

پَلَن٘گ • (palaṅg) m (Hindi spelling पलंग)

1. bed