palanka
See also: palaṅka
English
Etymology
Compare Italian, Portuguese, Spanish palanca.
Noun
palanka (plural palankas)
- (military, historical) A permanently entrenched camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for palanka in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish پلنقه (palanka).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pǎlaːnka/
- Hyphenation: pa‧lan‧ka
Noun
pàlānka f (Cyrillic spelling па̀ла̄нка)
- a small town on the Balkans
- a type of wooden fortress on the roads of Ottoman Empire built for the protection of travelers
Declension
Declension of palanka
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pàlānka | palanke |
| genitive | palanke | pàlanākā / pàlānkī |
| dative | pàlānci | palankama |
| accusative | palanku | palanke |
| vocative | palanko | palanke |
| locative | pàlānci | palankama |
| instrumental | palankom | palankama |
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