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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian سوگند (sawgand, “oath”).
Noun
سوگند • (sevgend)
- oath, vow, a solemn pledge or promise
- Synonyms: آند (and), قسم (kasem), یمین (yemin)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sevgend”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4174
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سوگند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 702
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Juramentum”, 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, Vienna, column 887
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سوگند”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2714
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوگند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1093
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian swknd (sōgand, “oath”), from Avestan (/saokanta/, “sulphur”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewk- (“white”). Related to سوختن (sōxtan, “to burn”), and سوگ (sōg, “sadness, mourning”).
Originally سوگند (sowgand) was a sulphur-filled drink given to defendants to determine the truth based on their body reaction to Sulphur.
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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sawgand
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Dari reading?
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sawgand
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Iranian reading?
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sowgand
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Tajik reading?
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savgand
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Noun
Dari
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سوگند
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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савганд
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سوگند • (sowgand) (plural سوگندها (sowgand-hâ))
- oath
Inflection
Enclitic-attached forms of سوگند (sowgand) (Iranian Persian)
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Basic forms of سوگند (sowgand)
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singular
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plural
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bare
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سوگند (sowgand)
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سوگندها (sowgand-hấ) سوگندا △ (sowgandấ)
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definitive direct object
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سوگند را (sowgand râ) سوگند رو △ (sowgando)
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سوگندها را (sowgand-hấ râ) سوگندا رو △ (sowgandấ ro)
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ezâfe
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سوگند (sowgand-e)
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سوگندهای (sowgand-hấ-ye) سوگندای △ (sowgandấ-ye)
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marked indefinite or relative definite
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سوگندی (sowgand-i)
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سوگندهایی (sowgandấn-i, sowgand-hấ-i) سوگندایی △ (sowgandấi)
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△ Colloquial.
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Descendants
References
- ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 235
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian سوگند (sawgand).
Noun
سوگند • (saugand) f (Hindi spelling सौगंद)
- oath, asseveration
Synonyms
References
- John T. Platts (2012 November 15 (last accessed)) A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English