اورغان

Ottoman Turkish

اورغان

Alternative forms

• ուրկան (urgan), ուրղան (urğan), օրղան (orğan) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *urkan (“rope”); cognate with Azerbaijani urğan, Salar urqan, Turkmen urgan and, more distantly, with Bashkir арҡан (arqan), Kazakh арқан (arqan), Kyrgyz аркан (arkan), Southern Altai аркан (arkan), Uyghur ئارقان (arqan), Uzbek arqon.

Noun

اورغان • (urgan) (definite accusative اورغانی (urganı), plural اورغانلر (urganlar))

1. sort of stout or large rope, especially a small hawser

Derived terms

• اورغانجی (urgancı, “maker or seller of stout ropes”)
• اوكسز اورغانی (öksüz urganı, “bindweed”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: urgan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “urgan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4992
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اورغان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 78b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اورغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 182
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Restis”, 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 1475
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اورغان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 502
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “urgan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اورغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 245