قلقان

Intensive adjective of Arabic قَلِقَ (qaliqa).

• IPA^(key): /ɡal.ɡaːn/

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

1. worried, anxious, concerned

• قالقان (kalkan)

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”).

• IPA^(key): /kaɫkan/

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”)

• Turkish: kalkan
• → Albanian: kallkan
• → Armenian: խալխան (xalxan), կալխան (kalxan)
• → Bulgarian: калка́н (kalkán)
• → Greek: καλκάνι (kalkáni)
• → Macedonian: калкан (kalkan)
• → Romanian: calcán
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̀лка̄н

  Latin script: kàlkān

• 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^[1] (in French), 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^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, column 3750
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kalkan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلقان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], 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

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

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

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

1. worried, anxious, concerned