palanka

See also: palaṅka

English

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka).

Noun

palanka (plural palankas)

1. (military, historical) A permanently entrenched camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “palanka”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Kalpana

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǎlaːnka/
• Hyphenation: pa‧lan‧ka

Noun

pàlānka f (Cyrillic spelling па̀ла̄нка)

1. a small town on the Balkans
2. a type of wooden fortress on the roads of Ottoman Empire built for the protection of travelers

Declension

Declension of palanka

	singular	plural
nominative	pàlānka	palanke
genitive	palanke	pàlanākā / pàlānkī
dative	pàlānci	palankama
accusative	palanku	palanke
vocative	palanko	palanke
locative	pàlānci	palankama
instrumental	palankom	palankama