آلاك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آلان (alan), الاڭ (ılañ), الان (ılan)
• ալանկ (alang /⁠alañ⁠/) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Common Turkic *alaŋ (“level ground, plain”). Cognate with Azerbaijani alan and Old Turkic [script needed] (alaŋ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ.ˈɫɑŋ/, /ɑ.ˈɫɑn/
• Homophone: آلان (alan)

Noun

آلاڭ • (alañ)

1. glade, plain ground or open space sheltered between mountains or forest trees or houses in a town or the like

Descendants

• Turkish: alan
• → Armenian: ալանկ (alank)
• → Bulgarian: ала́н (alán)
• → Greek: αλάνι (aláni), αλάνα (alána)
• → Macedonian: алан (alan)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 32b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلاك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 180b
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “ylâg الاك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 85a