صوغلجان
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]- صوغولجان (soğulcan)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïbuĺgan (“worm”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani soxulcan, Bashkir селәүсен (seləwsen), Kazakh шылаушын (şylauşyn), Tatar суалчан (suwalçan) and Uzbek chuvalchang.
Noun
[edit]صوغلجان • (soğulcan)
- earthworm, any worm in the family Lumbricidae
- helminth, any parasitic worm like the tapeworm or the fluke
- (in general) worm, a generally tubular invertebrate
- Synonym: قورت (kurt)
- (figuratively) trickster, deceiver, rogue, scoundrel
Derived terms
[edit]- شریت صوغلجان (şerit soğulcan, “tapeworm”)
- صوغلجان اوتی (soğulcan otu, “tansy”)
- صوغلجانلو (soğulcanlı, “infested with worms”)
- یر صوغلجانی (yer soğulcanı, “earthworm”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sɨbuĺgan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “solucan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4288
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوغلجان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 772
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lumbricus”, 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[2], Vienna, column 980
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صوغلجان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 3006
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “solucan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوغواجلن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1192