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kalkan.

shield

6 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/kaɫˈkan/

  1. shield

  2. ellipsis of kalkan balığı (“turbot”)

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Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish قلقان (kalkan), possibly from Proto-Turkic *Kal(ɨ)- (kalk(ɨ)-), to rise, to soar; through the addition of the suffixes -ık and -an. 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. In the sense of a fish, the term is short for kalkan balığı, following the shape of the latter.

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