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^[1], 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^[2], Vienna, column 3752
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلمدان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1470

Persian

Alternative forms

• قلم‌دان (qalam-dân)

Etymology

قلم +‎ ـدان.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qa.lam.dɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.läm.d̪ɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.läm.d̪ɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qä.läm.d̪ɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qä.läm.d̪ɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæ.læm.d̪ɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.läm.d̪ɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	qalamdān
Dari reading?	qalamdān
Iranian reading?	ğalamdân
Tajik reading?	qalamdon

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)