یورغون

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یور (yor-, “to tire, weary, fatigue”) +‎ ـغون (-gun).

Adjective

یورغون • (yorgun)

1. tired, weary, fatigued, worn out
   • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎^[1], page 5:

     بویوك حربك اوزون سنه‌لری ظرفنده ، ملت یورغون فقیر بر حالده.

     Büyük harbin uzun seneleri zarfında, millet yorgun fakir bir halde.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• یورغونلق (yorgunluk, “fatigue, weariness”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yorgun

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yorgun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5360
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یورغون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1362
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lassus”, 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 918
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یورغون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5616
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یورغون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2213