تاراج

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تاراج (târâj, “plunder, pillage”).

Noun

تاراج • (tarac)

1. pillage, plunder, sack, loot, any instance of spoliation

   Synonyms: تالان (talan), صویغون (soygun), یغما (yağma)

2. booty, loot, any good seized from an enemy with violence

   Synonyms: پلاچقه (plaçka), چاپول (çapul), غنیمت (ganimet), یغما (yağma)

Derived terms

• تاراج ایتمك (tarac etmek, “to pillage, plunder”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tarac

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tarac”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4603
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تاراج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 142b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تاراج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 335
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spoliatio”, 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 1587
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تاراج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1036
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تاراج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 475

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Transoxianan Persian, from ultimately unknown.

Noun

تاراج • (târâj)

1. plunder

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: tarac
• → Ottoman Turkish: تاراج (tarac)
  • Turkish: tarac