پلانقه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Hungarian palánk, from Latin phalanga.

Noun

پلانقه • (palanka)

  1. a kind of palisaded fortification erected by the Ottomans most notably in border regions and at communication routes, fort, redoubt
Descendants
  • Turkish: palanka
  • Bulgarian: пала́нка (palánka)
  • English: palanka
  • French: palanka
  • German: Palanke
  • New Latin: palanca
  • Macedonian: паланка (palanka)
  • Serbo-Croatian: па̀ла̄нка / pàlānka
  • Spanish: palanca

Etymology 2

From Italian paranco, from Latin phalanga..

Noun

پلانقه • (palanka)

  1. a machine with two pulleys to hoist load by spinning wheels, polyspast, muffle, block and tackle
Descendants
  • Turkish: palanga

References

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلانقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 323
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پلانقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 883
  • Turhal, Abdullah (2009) “Osmanlı kalelerinden: Palanka”, in Askeri Tarih Notları[3] (in Turkish), number 8, archived from the original on 9 May 2019 (with images)
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پلانقه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 170