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kalkan

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Turkish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Ottoman Turkish قلقان (kalkan), possibly from Proto-Turkic *Kạl(ɨ)- (kalk(ɨ)-), to rise, to soar; through the addition of the suffixes -ık and -an.[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani qalxan, Karakalpak qalqan, Kazakh қалқан (qalqan), Kyrgyz калкан (kalkan), Turkmen galkan, Uzbek qalqon. However, Nişanyan suspects a Mongolian borrowing, based on the verbal cognate qalqa(n), to shield.[2]

In the sense of a fish, the term is short for kalkan balığı, following the shape of the latter.

Noun

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kalkan (definite accusative kalkanı, plural kalkanlar)

  1. shield
  2. turbot
Declension
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Inflection
Nominative kalkan
Definite accusative kalkanı
Singular Plural
Nominative kalkan kalkanlar
Definite accusative kalkanı kalkanları
Dative kalkana kalkanlara
Locative kalkanda kalkanlarda
Ablative kalkandan kalkanlardan
Genitive kalkanın kalkanların

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Etymology 2

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Verb

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kalkan

  1. present participle of kalkmak