پلانقه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پلنقه (palanka), پالانقه (palanka)

Etymology 1

From Hungarian palánk, from Latin phalanga.

Noun

پلانقه • (palanka)

2. a kind of palisaded fortification erected by the Ottomans most notably in border regions and at communication routes, fort, redoubt

Descendants

• Turkish: palanka
• → Bulgarian: пала́нка (palánka)
• → English: palanka
• → French: palanka
• → German: Palanke
• → New Latin: palanca
• → Macedonian: паланка (palanka)
• → Serbo-Croatian: па̀ла̄нка / pàlānka
• → Spanish: palanca

Etymology 2

From Italian paranco, from Latin phalanga..

Noun

پلانقه • (palanka)

2. a machine with two pulleys to hoist load by spinning wheels, polyspast, muffle, block and tackle

Descendants

• Turkish: palanga

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلانقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 323
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پلانقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 883
• Turhal, Abdullah (2009) “Osmanlı kalelerinden: Palanka”, in Askeri Tarih Notları‎^[3] (in Turkish), number 8, archived from the original on 9 May 2019 (with images)
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پلانقه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 170