صاعقه

See also: صاعقة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَاعِقَة (ṣāʕiqa, “thunderbolt”).

Noun

صاعقه • (saʿika) (plural صواعق (savaʿik))

1. thunderbolt, lightning, a discharge of electricity within a cloud

   Synonyms: آذرخش (azerahş), برق (berk), یلدرم (yıldırım)

Descendants

• Turkish: saika

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sa’ika2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4024
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “sâika”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1096
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صاعقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 747
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fulmen”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 627
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صاعقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2917
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاعقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1157

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic صَاعِقَة (ṣāʕiqa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sɑː.ʔi.qa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɑː.ʔɪ.qä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɑː.ʔɪ.qä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sɑː.jɪ.qä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sɔː.ji.qä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sɒː.ʔe.ʁe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sɔ.ʔi.qä], [sɔ.ji.qä]

Readings
Classical reading?	sā'iqa
Iranian reading?	sâ'eğe
Tajik reading?	soʾiqa, soyiqa

Noun

Dari	صاعقه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	соиқа, соъиқа

صاعقه • (sâ'eqe) (plural صاعقه‌ها (sâ'eqe-hâ))

1. lightning, thunderbolt

   Synonym: آذرخش (âzaraxš)