pelican (any seabird of the family Pelecanidae) · Pelikan brand writing pen · flabby, sagging skin of the arms, especially visible when spread horizontally
çekim: çoğul pelikany · tamlayan pelikana
köken: Etymology tree Latin pelicānuslbor. Polish pelikan Learned borrowing from Latin pelicānus.
köken: Probably from a Turkic language, compare Chagatai قوتان (qotan, “pelican”), Southern Altai котон (koton), etc. Possibly a doublet with hattyú (“swan”).
köken: Borrowed from Dutch pelikaan (“pelican”), from Middle Dutch pellicaen, from Old French pelican, from Latin pelecānus, from Ancient Greek πελεκάν (pelekán).
köken: From nông (“pelican (obsolete)”) and prefix bồ found in several birds' names like bồ cốc (“cormorant”), bồ các (“Eurasian magpie”), bồ chao (“white-crested laughingthrush”), bồ cắt (“falcon”), bồ câu (“dove, pigeon”)
Cognate with Turkish kutan, Turkmen gotan (“pelican”) and Kazakh құтан (qūtan, “heron”). Compare also Mongolian хотон (xoton), Manchu ᡴᡡᡨᠠᠨ (kūtan) and Hungarian gödény (“pelican”), possibly a Turkic borrowing.