کلان
Persian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Parthian 𐫐𐫓𐫀𐫗 (klʾn /kalān/, “great, big; pure”). Related to Central Kurdish کەڵان (kellan, “big, great, giant”), کەڵە (kelle, “stud; male; male farm animal”) (as in کەڵەشێر (kelleşêr, “rooster”), کەڵەگا (kellega, “stud”)), Tat kələ (“great, big”) and the Armenian toponym Կաղանկատոյք (Kałankatoykʻ, literally “big habitation”). The ultimate origin is uncertain.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ka.ˈlaːn/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [kʰä.lɑ́ːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰʲæ.lɒ́ːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰä.lɔ́n]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | kalān |
| Dari reading? | kalān |
| Iranian reading? | kalân |
| Tajik reading? | kalon |
Adjective
کلان • (kalān / kalân) (comparative کلانتَر, superlative کلانتَرین, Tajik spelling калон) (chiefly Dari)
- big, huge, massive
- از خرد تا کلان (Dari)
- az xurd tā kalān
- the details, the exacts, everything
- (literally, “from small to big”)
- از خرد تا کلانش رو بهم توضیح داد (Iranian Persian)
- az xord tâ kalâneš ro behem towzih dâd
- they explained all the details to me
- elder, older
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “klʾn”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, page 205b
- Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 349
- Oranskij, I. M. (1970) “K imeni baktrijskovo (?) voždja ΚΑΤΆΝΗΣ (IV v. do n. e.) [To the name of the Bactrian (?) chieftain ΚΑΤΆΝΗΣ (IV cent. B. C.)]”, in Palestinskij sbornik[1] (in Russian), volume 21 (84), pages 155–160
- کَلاں [کَلاں] (فارسی), quotee (2006) “کلاں”, in اردو لغت[2]