kaplan

Signification (Anglais)

tiger

Concepts

tigre

🐅

tigresse

léopard

🐆

homme féroce

homme sanguinaire

Synonymes

leopar

🐆

kana susamış kimse

Traductions

Tiger

🐅

tigre

🐅

tiger

🐅

tijger

🐅

tigre

🐅

tigre

🐅

tigre

🐅

tigris

🐅

τίγρη

piling

🐅

tigre

τίγρης

τίγρις

نِمْر

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de turc ottoman: قپلان

Appartenant à kazakh: қабылан

Appartenant à kirghize: кабылан

Appartenant à turkmène: gaplaň

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish قپلان (kaplan, “leopard”), from Proto-Turkic *kaplan (“leopard; tiger”). Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (kaplan). Equivalent to kap (“to snatch, seize, catch”) + -lan (suffix denoting a wild, predatory animal). Compare aslan (“lion”), yılan (“snake”), sırtlan (“hyena”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qaplan, Kazakh қабылан (qabylan), Kyrgyz кабылан (kabılan) Turkmen gaplaň.