колан
Bulgarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قولان (kolan), itself perhaps from Italian collana (“necklace”)[1]. Compare Serbo-Croatian колан/kolan (“girth”).
References
- Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1979), “колан”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; the Italian origin of the Turkish word proposed by acad. Stefan Mladenov is described there as unconvincing, неубедително
Macedonian
Inflection
Declension of колан
singular | plural | |
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indefinite | колан | колани |
definite unspecified | коланот | коланите |
definite proximal | коланов | коланиве |
definite distal | коланон | коланине |
vocative | колану | колани |
count form | — | колана |
Nanai
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