kaplan

Concepts

tiger

🐅

leopard

🐆

tigress

Synonyms

leopar

🐆

kana susamış kimse

Translations

Tiger

🐅

tigre

🐅

tigre

🐅

tijger

🐅

tigre

🐅

tigre

🐅

tigre

🐅

tigris

🐅

τίγρη

piling

🐅

tigre

τίγρης

τίγρις

نِمْر

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: قپلان

Cognate with Kazakh: қабылан

Cognate with Kyrgyz: кабылан

Cognate with Turkmen: 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.