köken: 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.
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”)