قلقان

Hijazi Arabic
Root
ق ل ق
2 terms

Etymology

Intensive adjective of Arabic قَلِقَ (qaliqa).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡal.ɡaːn/

Adjective

قلقان • (galgān) (feminine قَلْقانة (galgāna), common plural قَلْقانين (galgānīn))

  1. worried, anxious, concerned

Ottoman Turkish
قلقان
قلقان

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kalkan (“shield”); cognate with Azerbaijani qalxan, Karakalpak qalqan, Kazakh қалқан (qalqan), Kyrgyz калкан (kalkan), Turkmen galkan, Uzbek qalqon. Compare Mongolian халх (xalx, “shield”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaɫkan/

Noun

قلقان • (kalkan)

  1. shield, especially a rondache or roundshield, a circular shield made of fig-wood covered with cords
    Synonyms: ترس (“türs”), درقه (daraka), سپر (“siper”)

Derived terms
  • قلقان بالغی (kalkan balığı, “turbot”)
  • قلقانجی (kalkancı, “shield-maker or shield-seller”)
  • قلقانلنمش (kalkanlanmış, “shielded”)
  • قلقانلنمق (kalkanlanmak, “to equip oneself with a shield”)
  • قلقانلو (kalkanlı, “shielded”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: kalkan
  • → Armenian: խալխան (xalxan), կալխան (kalxan)
  • → Bulgarian: калка́н (kalkán)
  • → Greek: καλκάνι (kalkáni)
  • → Macedonian: калкан (kalkan)
  • → Romanian: calcán
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ка̀лка̄н
    Latin script: kàlkān

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalkan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2539
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلقان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 934
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scutum”, 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 1526
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلقان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3750
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kalkan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلقان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1423
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قلقان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 707

South Levantine Arabic
Root
ق ل ق
2 terms

Etymology

Intensive adjective of the stative verb قلق (ʔiliʔ, “to be anxious, to be worried, to be concerned”) .

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (Urban) /ʔal.ʔaːn/, [ʔalˈʔæːn]
  • IPA(key): (Bedouin) /ɡal.ɡaːn/, [ɡalˈɡæːn]
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Adjective

قلقان • (ʔalʔān) (feminine قلقانة (ʔalʔāne), common plural قلقانين (ʔalʔānīn))

  1. worried, anxious, concerned
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