اژلنك
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Karakhanid
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly of Iranian origin,[1] perhaps a compound of *اژ (aj), shortened from Persian اژدرها (ajdarhā, “dragon”), affixed with the native wild animal suffix *-lan (compare Turkmen gaplaň).
Noun
[edit]اژلنك (ʔžlnk /ajlaŋ~ujlaŋ?/)
- (Oghuz, hapax) chameleon
- [1072–4, مَحْمُود الكَاشْغَرِيّ [maḥmūd al-kāšḡariyy], دِيوَانِ لُغَاتِ ٱلتُرْك [dīwāni luḡāti t-turk], volume 1 (in Arabic), عامره, published 1917, page 105:
- (ل) اژلنك — اَلْحِرْباءُ. بِژايٍ بِيْنِ الْمَخْرَ جَيْنِ. بِالْغُزِّيَّةِ.
- (l) ʔžlnk — al-ḥirbāʔu. bi-žāyin bīni l-maḵra jayni. bi-l-ḡuzziyyati.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ajlaŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 26
Further reading
[edit]- al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 116
- al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Ercilasun, Ahmet B., Akkoyunlu Ziyat, transl., Kâşgarlı Mahmud Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Giriş - Metin - Çeviri - Notlar - Dizin [Mahmud al-Kashgari's “Compendium of the languages of the Turks” Introduction - Texts - Translation - Notes - Index] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 1120) (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 2020, →ISBN, page 57