قپلان

Ottoman Turkish

قپلان

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kaplan (“leopard; tiger”); cognate with Kazakh қабылан (qabylan) and Turkmen gaplaň. For the ending, compare آرسلان (arslan, “lion”), صرتلان (sırtlan, “hyena”) and ییلان (yılan, “snake”).

Noun

قپلان • (kaplan)

1. leopard, a large wild cat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus)

   Synonyms: بارس (bars), پلنگ (peleng), یوز (yuz)

2. tiger, the largest living felid, indigenous of Asia (Panthera tigris)

   Synonym: پلنگ (peleng)

Derived terms

• قپلان پوست (kaplan post, “Martagon lily”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kaplan
• → Albanian: kapllan
• → Armenian: ղափլան (ġapʻlan), խափլան (xapʻlan), կափլան (kapʻlan)
• → Greek: καπλάνι (kapláni)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaplan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2403
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قپلان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 356b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قپلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 945
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tigris”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1673
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قپلان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3618
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaplan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قپلان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1435