قالقان

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kalkan.[1] Cognates with Turkish kalkan.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /qɑlqɑn/

Noun

قالقان • (qalqan) (plural قالقانلار (qalqanlar))

  1. shield
  2. (anatomy) thyroid

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kalkan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 621

Further reading
  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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