aslan
See also: Aslan
Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From arslan, from Ottoman Turkish ارسلان (arslan), from Proto-Turkic [Term?], equivalent to arsıl (“auburn, brown”) + -lan (“suffix denoting a wild, predatory animal”). Compare kaplan (“tiger”), yılan (“snake”), sırtlan (“hyena”).
Cognate with Azerbaijani aslan, Bashkir арыҫлан (arïθlan), Crimean Tatar arslan, Chuvash арӑслан (arăslan), Kazakh арыстан (arıstan), Kyrgyz арстан (arstan), Tatar арыслан (arıslan), Turkmen arslan, Uzbek arslon, Uyghur ئارسلان (arslan).
Compare Erzya арыслан (aryslan), Kalmyk арслң (arslñ), Mongolian арслан (arslan, “lion”). Compare the Turkic borrowings Adyghe аслъан (āsłān), Middle Armenian ասլան (aslan), and the given names Persian ارسلان (Arsalân), اصلان (Aslân), Arabic أَصْلَان (ʾaṣlān).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̟s.ɫɑ̟n/
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