صرتلان

Ottoman Turkish

صرتلان

Alternative forms

• سرتلان (sırtlan)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïrtlan (“hyena”); cognate with Bashkir һыртлан (hırtlan), Kyrgyz сырттан (sırttan), Turkmen syrtlan, Uyghur سىرتلان (sirtlan) and Uzbek sirtlon. For the ending, compare آرسلان (arslan, “lion”), قپلان (kaplan, “leopard”) and ییلان (yılan, “snake”).

Noun

صرتلان • (sırtlan)

1. hyena, any of the medium-sized to large carnivores in the genus Hyaena

   Synonyms: ضبع (zabuʿ), كفتار (keftar)

Descendants

• Turkish: sırtlan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sırtlan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5318
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صرتلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 760
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hyæna”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 714
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سرتلان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2586
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sırtlan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صرتلان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1173