kalkan
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɫˈkan/
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish قلقان (kalkan), possibly from Proto-Turkic *Kạl(ɨ)- (kalk(ɨ)-), to rise, to soar; through the addition of the suffixes -ık and -an.[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani qalxan, Karakalpak qalqan, Kazakh қалқан (qalqan), Kyrgyz калкан (kalkan), Turkmen galkan, Uzbek qalqon. However, Nişanyan suspects a Mongolian borrowing, based on the verbal cognate qalqa(n), to shield.[2]
In the sense of a fish, the term is short for kalkan balığı, following the shape of the latter.
Declension
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | kalkan | |
| Definite accusative | kalkanı | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | kalkan | kalkanlar |
| Definite accusative | kalkanı | kalkanları |
| Dative | kalkana | kalkanlara |
| Locative | kalkanda | kalkanlarda |
| Ablative | kalkandan | kalkanlardan |
| Genitive | kalkanın | kalkanların |
References
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