قلمدان

قلمدان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian قلمدان‎ (qalamdân), ultimately from قلم‎ (kalem, “reed”).

Noun

قلمدان • (kalemdan)

1. pencase, a case for storing pens, especially a qalamdan

Descendants

• Turkish: kalemdan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kalemdan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2353
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قلمدان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 969
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قلمدان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3752
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قلمدان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1470

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Persian

Alternative forms

• قلم‌دان‎ (qalam-dân)

Etymology

قلم‎ +‎ ـدان‎.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /qalamdɑːn/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /qalamdɒːn/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ɢælæmdɒːn/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /qalamdɔːn/

Noun

قلمدان • (qalamdân) (plural قلمدان‌ها‎ (qalamdân-hâ))

1. pen box
2. inkstand
3. qalamdan

Derived terms

• قلمدان‌سازی‎ (qalamdân-sâzi)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: qələmdan / قلمدان‎
• → English: qalamdan
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: क़लमदान (qalamdān)

  Urdu: قلم دان‎ (qalam-dān)

• → Ottoman Turkish: قلمدان‎ (kalemdân)
• → Punjabi: ਕਲਮਦਾਨ (kalmadān)