اژلنك

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Karakhanid

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Etymology

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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

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اژلنك (ʔ-ž-l-n-k /ajlaŋ~ujlaŋ?/)

  1. (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) ʔ-ž-l-n-k — al-ḥirbāʔu. bi-žāyin bīni l-maḵra jayni. bi-l-ḡuzziyyati.
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References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ajlaŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 26

Further reading

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