kalkan

Etymology 1
From, possibly from , to rise, to soar; through the addition of the suffixes -ık and -an. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. However, Nişanyan suspects a Mongolian borrowing, based on the verbal cognate qalqa(n), to shield.

In the sense of a fish, the term is short for, following the shape of the latter.

Noun

 * 1) shield
 * 2) turbot