تالان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• طالان (talan)

Etymology

From تالا- (“to plunder, to pillage, to sack, to loot”) +‎ ـن. Cognate with Azerbaijani talan, Chagatai [script needed] (talay, talan).

Noun

تالان • (talan)

1. plunder, sack

Related terms

• تالامق (talamak)
• تالانمق (talanmak)
• تالاتمق (talatmak)

Derived terms

• آلان تالان
• تالان ایتمك

Descendants

• Turkish: talan
• → Armenian: թալան (tʻalan)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تالان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 337
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تالان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 479

Persian

Noun

تالان • (tâlân)

1. plunder, sack

Ushojo

Verb

تالان (tālān)

1. to lay down