قپلان

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kaplan (“leopard; tiger”); cognate with Kazakh қабылан (qabylan) and Turkmen gaplaň. For the ending, compare آرسلان‎ (arslan, “lion”), صرتلان‎ (sırtlan, “hyena”) and ییلان‎ (yılan, “snake”).

قپلان • (kaplan)

1. leopard, a large wild cat native to Africa and Asia (Panthera pardus)

   Synonyms: بارس‎ (bars), پلنگ‎ (peleng), یوز‎ (yuz)

2. tiger, the largest living felid, indigenous of Asia (Panthera tigris)

   Synonym: پلنگ‎ (peleng)

• قپلان پوست‎ (kaplan post, “Martagon lily”)

• Turkish: kaplan
• → Armenian: ղափլան (łapʿlan), խափլան (xapʿlan), կափլան (kapʿlan)
• → Greek: καπλάνι (kapláni)

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• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قپلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 945
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• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قپلان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3618
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kaplan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قپلان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1437