aslan
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- aslanu
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ارسلان (arslan).
Noun
aslan
- lion
Turkish
Alternative forms
- arslan
Etymology
From arslan, from Ottoman Turkish ارسلان (arslan), from Proto-Turkic [Term?], equivalent to arsıl (“auburn, brown”) + -lan (“suffix denoting a wild, predatory animal”). Compare kaplan (“tiger”), yılan (“snake”), sırtlan (“hyena”).
Cognate withAzerbaijani aslan,Bashkir арыҫлан (arïθlan),Crimean Tatar arslan,Chuvash арӑслан (arăslan),Kazakh арыстан (arıstan),Kyrgyz арстан (arstan),Tatar арыслан (arıslan),Turkmen arslan,Uzbek arslon,Uyghur ئارسلان (arslan).
Compare Erzya арыслан (aryslan), Kalmyk арслң (arslñ), Mongolian арслан (arslan, “lion”). Compare the Turkic borrowings Adyghe аслъан (āsłān), Middle Armenian ասլան (aslan), and the given names Persian ارسلان (Arsalân), اصلان (Aslân), Arabic أَصْلَان (ʾaṣlān).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̟s.ɫɑ̟n/
Noun
aslan (definite accusative aslanı, plural aslanlar)
- (zoology) lion
Declension
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | aslan | |
| Definite accusative | aslanı | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | aslan | aslanlar |
| Definite accusative | aslanı | aslanları |
| Dative | aslana | aslanlara |
| Locative | aslanda | aslanlarda |
| Ablative | aslandan | aslanlardan |
| Genitive | aslanın | aslanların |