palanka

See also: palaṅka

English

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka). Doublet of planch, plank, and phalanx.

Noun

palanka (plural palankas)

1. (military, historical) A permanently entrenched wooden camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “palanka”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Kalpana

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǎlaːnka/
• Hyphenation: pa‧lan‧ka

Noun

pàlānka f (Cyrillic spelling па̀ла̄нка)

1. a small town on the Balkans
2. a type of wooden fortress on the roads of Ottoman Empire built for the protection of travelers

Declension

Declension of palanka

	singular	plural
nominative	pàlānka	palanke
genitive	palanke	pàlanākā / pàlānkī
dative	pàlānci	palankama
accusative	palanku	palanke
vocative	palanko	palanke
locative	pàlānci	palankama
instrumental	palankom	palankama

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka), from Hungarian palánk, from Latin phalanga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paɫaŋkɐ/

Noun

palanka (definite accusative palankayı, plural palankalar)

1. palanka (a permanently entrenched camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	palanka
Definite accusative	palankayı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	palanka	palankalar
Definite accusative	palankayı	palankaları
Dative	palankaya	palankalara
Locative	palankada	palankalarda
Ablative	palankadan	palankalardan
Genitive	palankanın	palankaların