palanka
noun
palanka is a noun meaning “A permanently entrenched wooden camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-A-N-K-A, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of palanka is palankas.
What does palanka mean?
noun
- 1
A permanently entrenched wooden camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of palanka
- palankas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is palanka?
Palanka appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does palanka come from?
From Ottoman Turkish پلانقه (palanka). Doublet of planch, plank, and phalanx.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).