# پالان
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پالان (pâlân, “packsaddle”), from Proto-Iranian *pari-dāna- (literally “around-placed”).

### Noun

پالان • (palan) (definite accusative پالانی (palanı), plural پالانلر (palanlar))
* packsaddle, a saddle without a frame and resembling a large cushion
    Synonym: سمر (semer)

#### Derived terms

* مركب پالانی (merkeb palanı, “packsaddle for a donkey”)
* پالانجی (palancı, “maker or seller of packsaddles”)
* پالاندوز (palanduz, “maker or seller of packsaddles”)
* پالانلو (palanlı, “saddled with a packsaddle”)
* پالانی (palani, “fit for riding”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: palan
* → Armenian: փալան (pʻalan)

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پالان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 385
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “palan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3756
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پالان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 104b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پالان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 314
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clitellae”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 192
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پالان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 682
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “palan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پالان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 435

## Persian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *pari-dāna- (literally “around-placed”), from *pari- (“around”) and a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place”); cognate with Sogdian 𐫛𐫏𐫡𐫔𐫗 (pyrδn, “saddle”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [pɑː.ˈlɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰɑː.lɑ́ːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰɑː.lɑ́ːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [pʰɑː.lɑ́ːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [pʰɔː.lɔ́ːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [pʰɒː.lɒ́ːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [pʰɔ.lɔ́n]

### Noun

پالان • (pâlân)
* packsaddle
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 41:آن یکی خر داشت، پالانش نبود یافت پالان گرگ خر را در ربودān yakē xar dāšt, pālān-aš na-būd yāft pālān gurg xar rā dar rubūdA certain man had an ass but no pack-saddle: [as soon as] he got a saddle, the wolf carried away his ass.(Classical Persian transliteration)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: palan
* → Old Georgian: პალანი (ṗalani)
** Georgian: პალანი (ṗalani), ფალანი (palani)
* → Middle Armenian: պաղան (paġan)
* → Ottoman Turkish: پالان (palan)
** Turkish: palan
** → Armenian: փալան (pʻalan)

### References

* ↑ Henning, W. B. (1977) Selected Papers (Acta Iranica; 15), volume II, Tehran and Liège: Bibliothèque Pahlavi, page 140, footnote 1

### Further reading

* Rubinčik Ju. A., editor (1985), “پالان”, in Persidsko-russkij slovarʹ [Persian–Russian Dictionary]‎ (in Russian), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk
* Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 426b