كلنار

Ottoman Turkish

گلنار

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian گلنار (gol-nâr), a compound of گل (gol, “rose”) +‎ نار (nâr, “pomegranate”). By surface analysis, گل (gül) +‎ نار (nar).

Noun

گلنار • (gülnar)

1. the flower of the pomegranate

Derived terms

• گلناری (gülnari, “bright red”)

Gülnar district

Proper noun

گلنار • (Gülnar)

1. Gülnar (a town and district in Mersin province, Turkey)

Descendants

• Turkish: Gülnar
• → Armenian: Կիւլնար (Kiwlnar), ⇒ Կյուլնարյան (Kyulnaryan)

Further reading

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “gülnâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 356
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كلنار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1036
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Balaustiū”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 113
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كلنار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4003
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Gülnar”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كلنار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1568
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Gülnar”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[6], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 310