колан

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Bulgarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قولان (kolan), itself perhaps from Italian collana (necklace).[1] Compare Serbo-Croatian колан/kolan (girth).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [koˈɫan]
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

кола́н (kolánm

  1. girdle, belt

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “кола̀н”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 547; the Italian origin of the Turkish word proposed by acad. Stefan Mladenov is described there as unconvincing, неубедително

Anagrams[edit]

Macedonian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

колан (kolanm (diminutive коланче)

  1. belt

Declension[edit]

Nanai[edit]

Noun[edit]

колан (kolan)

  1. insect