اركان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic أَرْكَان (ʔarkān), plural of رُكْن (rukn).

Noun

اركان • (erkân)

  1. great men, high officials
    اركان حربیه ― erkân-i harbiye ― general staff (literally, “high military officers”)
  2. fundamentals (of science, etc.)

Descendants

  • Turkish: erkân

Further reading

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “erkân”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian
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