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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *saba- (“to beat, hit, fight”), the same root of صاواشمق (savaşmak, “to fight, quarrel, combat”); cognate with Azerbaijani savaş and Turkmen söweş.
Noun
صاواش • (savaş)
- effort, endeavor, a determined or assiduous attempt towards a specific goal
- battle, fight, combat, a military action in which two or more armies are engaged
- Synonyms: اوغراش (oğraş), پرخاش (perhaş), جنك (cenk), دوگش (döğüş), ناورد (naverd)
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “savaş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4091
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صواش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 303b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صاواش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 752
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pugna”, 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 1401
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صواش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2999-3000
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “savaş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاواش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1163