اوكنج

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• էվկէնճ (evgenc) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian [Term?].

Noun

اوگنج • (evgenc)

1. regret, repentance, remorse, contrition, the emotion of wishing one had made a different decision in the past

   Synonym: پشیمانلق (pişmanlık)

Descendants

• Turkish: evgenc

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “evgenc”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1516
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 110b
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “evgenc”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 288
• Pōzačean, Yakovbos (1841) “էվկէնճ”, in Hamaṙōt baṙaran i tačkakanē i hay [Concise Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary]‎^[2], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 185a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوكنج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 263