aslan

See also: Aslan

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• aslanu

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ارسلان (arslan).

Noun

aslan

1. lion

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Turkish

Alternative forms

• arslan

Etymology

From arslan, from Ottoman Turkish ارسلان (arslan), from Proto-Turkic [Term?], equivalent to arsıl (“auburn, brown”) + -lan (suffix denoting a wild, predatory animal). Compare kaplan (“tiger”), yılan (“snake”), sırtlan (“hyena”).

Cognate with Azerbaijani aslan, Bashkir арыҫлан (arıślan), Crimean Tatar arslan, Chuvash арӑслан (arăslan), Kazakh арыстан (arystan), Kyrgyz арстан (arstan), Tatar арыслан (arıslan), Turkmen arslan, Uzbek arslon, Uyghur ئارسلان (arslan).

Compare Erzya арыслан (arislan), Kalmyk арслң (arslñ), Mongolian арслан (arslan, “lion”). Compare the Turkic borrowings Adyghe аслъан (aslˢan), Middle Armenian ասլան (aslan), and the given names Persian ارسلان (Arsalân), اصلان (Aslân), Arabic أَصْلَان (ʔaṣlān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̟s.ɫɑ̟n/

Noun

aslan (definite accusative aslanı, plural aslanlar)

1. (zoology) lion

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	aslan
Definite accusative	aslanı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aslan	aslanlar
Definite accusative	aslanı	aslanları
Dative	aslana	aslanlara
Locative	aslanda	aslanlarda
Ablative	aslandan	aslanlardan
Genitive	aslanın	aslanların