palanga
See also: Palanga and palangă
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka), from Italian paranco, ultimately from Latin phalanga. Doublet of palanka.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pa‧lan‧ga
Noun
palanga (definite accusative palangayı, plural palangalar)
- block and tackle, polyspast, muffle, a system of two or more pulleys used to provide tension and lift heavy loads
- Synonym: caraskal
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | palanga | palangalar |
| definite accusative | palangayı | palangaları |
| dative | palangaya | palangalara |
| locative | palangada | palangalarda |
| ablative | palangadan | palangalardan |
| genitive | palanganın | palangaların |
Derived terms
- palangalı
- palangasız
Further reading
- “palanga”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “palanga”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “palanga2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 4, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3756
- Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958), The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 458, page 328
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “palanga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük