kalkan
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɫˈkan/
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish قلقان (kalkan), possibly from Proto-Turkic *Kạl(ɨ)- (kalk(ɨ)-), to rise, to soar; through the addition of the suffixes -ık and -an.[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani qalxan, Karakalpak qalqan, Kazakh қалқан (qalqan), Kyrgyz калкан (kalkan), Turkmen galkan, Uzbek qalqon. However, Nişanyan suspects a Mongolian borrowing, based on the verbal cognate qalqa(n), to shield.[2]
In the sense of a fish, the term is short for kalkan balığı, following the shape of the latter.
Noun
kalkan (definite accusative kalkanı, plural kalkanlar)
- shield
- turbot
Declension
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | kalkan | |
| Definite accusative | kalkanı | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | kalkan | kalkanlar |
| Definite accusative | kalkanı | kalkanları |
| Dative | kalkana | kalkanlara |
| Locative | kalkanda | kalkanlarda |
| Ablative | kalkandan | kalkanlardan |
| Genitive | kalkanın | kalkanların |
References
- https://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fdata%2falt%2fturcet&text_number=1399&root=config
- https://www.nisanyansozluk.com/kelime/kalkan
Verb
kalkan
- present participle of kalkmak