feveran

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فوران (feverân), from Arabic فَوَرَان (fawarān), verbal noun of فَارَ (fāra, “to overflow, gush”).

Noun

feveran (definite accusative feveranı, plural feveranlar)

1. (geology, archaic) eruption
   • 1931 January 1, Son Posta, page 5:

     Somatra adasında bulunan (Merapi) yanardağı birkaç gündenberi feveran halindedir.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (archaic) boiling over, gushing out

   Synonyms: kaynama, vurma, fışkırma

3. becoming enraged

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “feverân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 315
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “feveran”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN