آلاڭ

See also: آلاك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

آلاك (alañ), آلان (alan), الاڭ (ılañ), الاك (ılañ), الان (ılan)
ալանկ (alang /⁠alañ⁠/) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Common Turkic *alaŋ (“level ground, plain”). Cognate with Azerbaijani alan and Old Turkic [script needed] (alaŋ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑ.ˈɫɑŋ/, /ɑ.ˈɫɑn/
Homophone: آلان (alan)

Noun

آلاڭ • (alañ)

glade, plain ground or open space sheltered between mountains or forest trees or houses in a town or the like

Descendants

Turkish: alan
→ Armenian: ալանկ (alank)
→ Bulgarian: ала́н (alán)
→ Greek: αλάνι (aláni), αλάνα (alána)
→ Macedonian: алан (alan)

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 32b
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلاڭ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 180b
Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “ylâg الاك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 85a

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