پلنك

See also: پلنگ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پلنگ (palang, “panther; leopard”).

Noun

پلنگ • (peleng)

1. leopard, a large wild cat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus)

   Synonyms: بارس (bars), قپلان (kaplan), یوز (yuz)

2. tiger, the largest living felid, indigenous of Asia (Panthera tigris)

   Synonym: قپلان (kaplan)

Derived terms

• پلنگی (pelengi, “the quality of a leopard”)
• پلنگین (pelengin, “leopard-like”)
• پلنگینه (pelengine, “coat or rug of leopard skin”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: peleng
• → Armenian: փէլէնկ (pʻēlēnk)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “peleng”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3814
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 324
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tigris”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1673
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پلنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 883
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 452