بوزان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بوزـ (boz-, “to spoil, ruin, destroy”) +‎ ـان (-an).

Adjective

بوزان • (bozan)

1. spoiling, ruining, destroying, that spoils, ruins, or destroys

Derived terms

• آلای بوزان (alay bozan, “blunderbuss”)
• اویون بوزان (oyun bozan, “spoilsport, killjoy”)
• دمیر بوزان (demir bozan, “antimony”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bozan

Verb

بوزان • (bozan)

1. imperfect participle of بوزمق (bozmak)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bozan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 666
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوزان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 285
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 398