صوپه

Ottoman Turkish

صوپه

Alternative forms

• صوپا (sopa)

Etymology

It evolved from the Persian word چوبه (čube, “stick, staff, rod”), showing the evolution of c/ç > /z/ typical of Anatolian dialects. Cognate with Azerbaijani zopa.

Noun

صوپه • (sopa)

1. cudgel, bat, a stout stick with a rounded head used as a weapon

   Synonyms: چوماق (çomak), كوتك (kötek)

2. ferule, a ruler-shaped instrument, used to slap children on the hand

   Synonym: دكنك (değenek)

3. bastinado, a blow with a cudgel or stick, or a beating with sticks

   Synonyms: دكنك (değenek), طیاق (dayak), كوتك (kötek)

Derived terms

• بكجی صوپه‌سی (bekci sopası, “watchman's staff”)
• صوپه آتمق (sopa atmak, “to cudgel, to beat with a stick”)
• صوپه یمك (sopa yemek, “to get a good cudgeling”)
• صوپه‌لو (sopalı, “provided with a stick”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sopa, zopa (dialectal)
• → Armenian: սօփա (sōpʻa), զոփա (zopʻa)
• → Bulgarian: со́па (sópa)
• → Georgian: ზოფა (zopa) — Adjara
• → Greek: σόπα (sópa)
• → Romanian: sopă
• → Serbo-Croatian: со̀па／sòpa

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sopa1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4297
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صوپه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 303b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوپه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 770
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Baculus”, 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 112
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صوپه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3001
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sopa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوپا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1189