پالان

Ottoman Turkish

پالان

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پالان (pâlân, packsaddle).

Noun

پالان • (palan)

  1. packsaddle, a saddle without a frame and resembling a large cushion
    Synonym: سمر (semer)

Derived terms

  • مركب پالانی (merkeb palanı, packsaddle for a donkey)
  • پالانجی (palancı, maker or seller of packsaddles)
  • پالاندوز (palanduz, maker or seller of packsaddles)

Descendants

  • Turkish: palan
  • Armenian: փալան (pʻalan)

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *pari-dāna- (literally around-placed), from *pari- (around) and a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (to put, place); cognate with Sogdian 𐫛𐫏𐫡𐫔𐫗 (pyrδn, saddle).[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [pʰɑː.lɑ́ːn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [pʰɑː.lɑ́ːn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [pʰɔː.lɔ́ːn]

Readings
Classical reading? pālān
Dari reading? pālān
Iranian reading? pâlân
Tajik reading? polon

Noun

پالان • (pâlân)

  1. packsaddle
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 41:
      آن یکی خر داشت، پالانش نبود
      یافت پالان گرگ خر را در ربود
      ān yakē xar dāšt, pālān-aš na-būd
      yāft pālān gurg xar rā dar rubūd
      A certain man had an ass but no pack-saddle: [as soon as] he got a saddle, the wolf carried away his ass.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Descendants

References

  1. Henning, W. B. (1977) Selected Papers (Acta Iranica; 15), volume II, Tehran and Liège: Bibliothèque Pahlavi, page 140, footnote 1

Further reading

  • Rubinčik Ju. A., editor (1985), “پالان”, in Persidsko-russkij slovarʹ [Persian–Russian Dictionary] (in Russian), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk
  • Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 426b
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