شاقلابان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Ultimately either derived or conflated with شاقلامق (şaklamak, “to make a cracking sound”). Possibly from Greek σαχλαμάρας (sachlamáras) or a corruption of شهلوند (şehlevend) (see لوند (lavand)).

Noun

شاقلابان • (şaklaban)

1. buffoon, fool

   Synonyms: صویتاری (soytarı), مقلد (mukallid), مسخر (mashara, maskara)

2. impostor, trickster, charlatan

Derived terms

• شاقلابانلق (şaklabanlık)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: şaklaban
• → Albanian: shakllaban
• → Greek: σαχλαμπάνης (sachlampánis)
• → Serbo-Croatian: šaklàban / шакла̀бан

Adjective

شاقلابان • (şaklaban)

1. foolish, silly
2. fraudulent, dishonest
3. noisy

   Synonym: شاقراق (şakrak)

References

• Seydi, Ali (1912) “شٰاقْلٰابٰانْ”, in رسملی قاموس عثمانی [resimli kamus-ı ʼosmani]‎^[1] (in Ottoman Turkish), page 577c
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاقلابان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 715b
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “شاقلابان”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 454b
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “chaclaban”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 235
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şaklaban”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4421
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şaklaban”, in Nişanyan Sözlük