թալան

Armenian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تالان (talan) and Azerbaijani talan.

Pronunciation

Noun

թալան • (tʻalan) (dialectal, colloquial)

  1. plunder, robbery
    Synonym: կողոպուտ (koġoput)

Declension

Derived terms

  • ալան-թալան (alan-tʻalan)
  • թալանել (tʻalanel)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “թալան”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “թալան”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), “թալան”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan
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