صوجوق

Ottoman Turkish

صوجوق

Alternative forms

• سجوق (sucuk)
• սուճուգ (sucuk) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *suğutčuk, a diminutive of *suğut (“sausage”). Cognate with Kazakh шұжық (şūjyq) and Kyrgyz чучук (cucuk).

Noun

صوجوق • (sucuk)

1. sausage, sujuk, a food made of ground meat and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine

   Synonyms: بومبار (bumbar), زونج (zevenc)

2. sujuk, a sausage-shaped confection, made from walnuts sewn onto a string and dipped in thickened grape must
3. saucisse, saucisson, a long and slender pipe or bag filled with powder, used to communicate fire to mines

Derived terms

• صوجوق اولمق (sucuk olmak, “to be wet through”)
• قان صوجوغی (kan sucuğu, “blood pudding”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sucuk
• → Arabic: سُجُقّ (sujuqq)
• → Armenian: սուջուխ (suǰux)
• → Bulgarian: суджу́к (sudžúk)
• → Greek: σουτζούκι (soutzoúki)
• → Macedonian: суџук (sudžuk)
• → Romanian: sugiuc
• → Serbo-Croatian: sùdžuk／су̀џук

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sucuk1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4343
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سجوق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 265a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوجوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 771
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lucanica”, 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 975
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سجوق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2559
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sucuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوجوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190