اركان
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic أَرْكَان (ʔarkān), plural of رُكْن (rukn).
Noun
[edit]اركان • (erkân)
- great men, high officials
- اركان حربیه ― erkân-i harbiye ― general staff (literally, “high military officers”)
- fundamentals (of science, etc.)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: erkân
Further reading
[edit]- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “erkân”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian