پلنگ

پَلَنگ (palang or pələng) (definite accusative پَلَنگی or پَلَنگؽ, plural پَلَنگلَر or پَلَنگلار)

1. Arabic spelling of palang, pələng (“leopard, tiger”)

Borrowed from Persian پلنگ (palang, “panther; leopard”).

پلنگ • (peleng)

1. leopard, a large wild cat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus)

   Synonyms: بارس (bars), قپلان (kaplan), یوز (yuz)

2. tiger, the largest living felid, indigenous of Asia (Panthera tigris)

   Synonym: قپلان (kaplan)

• Turkish: peleng
• → Armenian: փէլէնկ (pʻēlēnk)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “peleng”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3814
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلنگ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 324
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tigris”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1673
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پلنگ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 883
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلنگ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 452

Compare to Bactrian πορλαγγο-ζινο (porlaggo-zino), Pashto پړانګ (pṙâng), Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “panther”), and Ancient Greek πάρδαλις (párdalis).

پَلَنْگ • (palang) (plural پلنگ‌ها (palang-hâ))

1. panther
2. leopard

• پلنگی (palangi)

• → Azerbaijani: pələng (“tiger”)
• → Khalaj: palang (“tiger, leopard”)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pə.ləŋɡ/

پَلَن٘گ • (palaṅg) m (Hindi spelling पलंग)

1. bed