صویغون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• սօյկուն (soygun), սօյղուն (soyğun) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From صوی (soy-, “to strip, undress; to pillage, rob”) +‎ ـغون (-gun).

Adjective

صویغون • (soygun)

1. stripped, undressed, having undergone stripping, laid bare

Derived terms

• دوگون صویغونی (düğün soygunu, “female servant at a wedding-feast”)
• صویغونلق (soygunluk, “strippedness, undress”)

 

Noun

صویغون • (soygun)

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

   Synonyms: تاراج (tarac), تالان (talan), یغما (yağma)

Derived terms

• صویغون ویرمك (soygun virmek, “to be plundered”)

Descendants

• Turkish: soygun

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “soygun1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4306
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صویغون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 305b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صویغون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 776a
• 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) “صویغون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3013
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صویغون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1196