falan

falan

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of falar

falan

1. third-person plural present indicative of falar

falan

1. Romanization of ᡶᠠᠯᠠᠨ

• filan
• felan (misspelling)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فلان (falan), from Arabic فُلَان (fulān).

• IPA^(key): /faˈɫan/
• Hyphenation: fa‧lan

falan

1. the "you-know-" part in you-know-who or you-know-what

   Falan tarihte, falan yerde, falan kişi ile gezerken sizi gördüm.

   You-know-when, I saw you at you-know-where, while I was walking with you-know-who.

falan (definite accusative falanı, plural falanlar)

1. or something, or anything

   Bizi öldürmeye falan mı çalışıyorsun?

   Are you trying to kill us or something?

   Dalga geçiyor falan değilim.

   It's not like I'm making fun of it or anything

2. and whatnot, etc.

   Atlet falan aldım.

   I bought tank tops and whatnot.

falan

1. you-know-what
2. you-know-who

   Bana "falan geldi, falan gitti" diye anlatmaya başladı.

   So he started recounting me like "you-know-who came, and you-know-who went".

• “falan”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “falan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “falan”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “falan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1496