آفیون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• աֆիյօն (afiyon) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَفْيُون (ʔafyūn, “opium”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion, “opium”).

Noun

آفیون • (afyon)

1. opium, an addictive, narcotic drug obtained from the opium poppy

Derived terms

• آفیون روحی (afyon ruhu, “laudanum”)
• آفیون طوزی (afyon tuzu, “morphine”)
• آفیون قره حصار (afyon kara hisar, “Afyonkarahisar”)

Descendants

• Turkish: afyon
• → Hungarian: áfium
• → Macedonian: афион (afion)
• → Romanian: afion
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: афѝо̄н

  Latin script: afìōn

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “afyon”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 124
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آفیون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 53a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آفیون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 26
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Opium”, 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 1210
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آفیون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 326
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “afyon”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آفیون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 161