پالان

Ottoman Turkish

پالان

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پالان (pâlân, “packsaddle”), from Proto-Iranian *pari-dāna- (literally “around-placed”).

Noun

پالان • (palan) (definite accusative پالانی (palanı), plural پالانلر (palanlar))

1. packsaddle, a saddle without a frame and resembling a large cushion

   Synonym: سمر (semer)

Derived terms

• مركب پالانی (merkeb palanı, “packsaddle for a donkey”)
• پالانجی (palancı, “maker or seller of packsaddles”)
• پالاندوز (palanduz, “maker or seller of packsaddles”)
• پالانلو (palanlı, “saddled with a packsaddle”)
• پالانی (palani, “fit for riding”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: palan
• → Armenian: փալան (pʻalan)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پالان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 385
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “palan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3756
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پالان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 104b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پالان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 314
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clitellae”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 192
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پالان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 682
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “palan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پالان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 435

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *pari-dāna- (literally “around-placed”), from *pari- (“around”) and a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place”); cognate with Sogdian 𐫛𐫏𐫡𐫔𐫗 (pyrδn, “saddle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pɑː.ˈlɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː.lɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː.lɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː.lɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰɔː.lɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɒː.lɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɔ.lɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	pālān
Dari reading?	pālān
Iranian reading?	pâlân
Tajik reading?	polon

Noun

پالان • (pâlân)

1. packsaddle
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 41:

     آن یکی خر داشت، پالانش نبود
     یافت پالان گرگ خر را در ربود

     ān yakē xar dāšt, pālān-aš na-būd
     yāft pālān gurg xar rā dar rubūd

     A certain man had an ass but no pack-saddle: [as soon as] he got a saddle, the wolf carried away his ass.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: palan
• → Old Georgian: პალანი (ṗalani)
  • Georgian: პალანი (ṗalani), ფალანი (palani)
• → Middle Armenian: պաղան (paġan)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پالان (palan)
  • Turkish: palan
  • → Armenian: փալան (pʻalan)

Further reading

• Rubinčik Ju. A., editor (1985), “پالان”, in Persidsko-russkij slovarʹ [Persian–Russian Dictionary]‎^[6] (in Russian), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk
• Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 426b