سوغون

Persian

Alternative forms

سوغان (sōğān, savğān)

Etymology

Borrowed from Chagatai ساوغون, of the stem soğu- (“cold”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [soː.ɣuːn], [saw.ɣuːn]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säw.ɣuːn]

Readings
Classical reading^?	sōğūn, sawğūn
Dari reading^?	sawğūn

Noun

سوغون • (sōğūn or sawğūn)

(obsolete) an unexperienced or impetuous horse which has yet to be trained and cooled

Derived terms

سوغون گرفتن (savğūn giriftan), سوغان کردن (savğān kardan, “to train for races”)

References

ʿAmīd, Ḥasan (1985) “سوغان”, in Farhang-e Fārsī-e ʿAmīd (in Persian), Tehrān: Amīrkabīr
Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “سوغون”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 344, cf. Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “سوغون”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[2] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 357 a kind of deer
Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سوغان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎^[3] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 298 Nr. 1295
Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎^[4] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 162–163 Nr. 479
Mo'in, Mohammad (1972) “سوغان”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir
Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “ساوغون”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 494a, cf. Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “سوغون”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 526c a kind of deer