آلاك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *alaŋ (“level ground, plain”). Cognate with Azerbaijani alan and Old Turkic [script needed] (alaŋ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ.ˈɫɑŋ/, /ɑ.ˈɫɑn/
  • Homophone: آلان (alan)

Noun

آلاڭ • (alañ)

  1. glade, plain ground or open space sheltered between mountains or forest trees or houses in a town or the like

Descendants

  • Turkish: alan
  • → Armenian: ալանկ (alank)
  • → Bulgarian: ала́н (alán)
  • → Greek: αλάνι (aláni), αλάνα (alána)
  • → Macedonian: алан (alan)

References

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 32b
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلاك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 180b
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “ylâg الاك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 85a
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