kalkan

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. shield
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) ellipsis of kalkan balığı (“turbot”)

Verb

present participle of kalkmak

kalkmak

1. (intransitive) to go up, rise; become erect
2. (intransitive) to stand up, rise to one's feet, get up
3. (intransitive) to get up, wake up, get out of bed
4. (intransitive) to leave, depart, take off
5. (intransitive) to rise, come loose, peel off
6. (intransitive) to go out of use, to be annulled, be repealed, be abolished
7. (slang, transitive) to erect, be hard (for a penis)

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Concepts

bouclier

🛡️

écu

🛡️

flet

pleuronecte

turbot

barbue

égide

gâble

Synonymes

siper

kalkan duvarı

pencere kalkanı

Traductions

shield

🛡️

escudo

🛡️

scudo

🛡️

Schild

ασπίδα

schild

🛡️

escudo

🛡️

scutum

escut

🛡️

escut

buckler

aegis

clipeus

turbot

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kaɫˈkan/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de turc ottoman: قلقان

Appartenant à azerbaïdjanais: qalxan

Appartenant à karakalpak: qalqan

Appartenant à kazakh: қалқан

Appartenant à kirghize: калкан

Appartenant à turkmène: galkan

Appartenant à ouzbek: qalqon

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish قلقان (kalkan), possibly from Proto-Turkic *Kal(ɨ)- (kalk(ɨ)-), to rise, to soar; through the addition of the suffixes -ık and -an. Cognate with Azerbaijani qalxan, Karakalpak qalqan, Kazakh қалқан (qalqan), Kyrgyz калкан (kalkan), Turkmen galkan, Uzbek qalqon. However, Nişanyan suspects a Mongolian borrowing, based on the verbal cognate qalqa(n), to shield.
In the sense of a fish, the term is short for kalkan balığı, following the shape of the latter.