اوزون

See also: اوْزوْن and أوزون

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *uŕun (“long”); cognate with Azerbaijani uzun, Chuvash вӑрӑм (vărăm), Kazakh ұзын (ūzyn), Kumyk узун (uzun), Kyrgyz узун (uzun), Turkmen uzyn, Uyghur ئۇزۇن (uzun), Uzbek uzun and Yakut уһун (uhun).

Adjective

اوزون • (uzun)

1. long, elongated, having much distance in space from one end to the other, specifically in a horizontal dimension

   Synonyms: دراز (dirâz), طویل (tevil)

2. long, lengthy, prolonged, protracted, longsome, having great duration, protracting for a long period of time

   Synonym: طویل (tevil)

3. (of a person) tall, having a vertical extent greater than the average, having a relatively great height

   Synonyms: اوزون بویلو (uzun boylu), بزرك (büzürg)

Derived terms

• الی اوزون (eli uzun, “long-handed”)
• اوزون اشك (uzun eşek, “leapfrog”)
• اوزون اوزادی (uzun uzadı, “for a long time continuously”)
• اوزون ایتمك (uzun etmek, “to go extremes”)
• اوزون بویلو (uzun boylu, “tall of stature”)
• اوزون طوتمق (uzun tutmak, “to prolong”)
• اوزون قولاقدن خبر آلمق (uzun kulakdan haber almak, “to be informed unexpectedly or indirectly”)
• اوزون كونلر (uzun günler, “the longest days of the year”)
• اوزون كوپری (uzun köprü, “Uzunköprü, a district in Turkey”)
• اوزون یول (uzun yol, “a long way”)
• اوزونجه (uzunca, “longish”)
• اوزونرق (uzunrak, “longer, taller”)
• اوزونلشمق (uzunlaşmak, “to become long”)
• اوزونلق (uzunluk, “length”)
• اوپ اوزون (up uzun, “very long”)
• عقلی اوزون (ʼaklı uzun, “perceptive, perspicacious”)

Descendants

• Turkish: uzun
• → Aromanian: uzún
• → Bulgarian: узу́н (uzún)
• → Middle Armenian: Ուզուն (Uzun)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: у̀зун

  Latin script: ùzun

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اوزون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 165
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uzun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5022
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوزون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 80b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوزون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 188
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Longus”, 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 969
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوزون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 515
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “uzun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوزون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 252