صویغون

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

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

Noun

صویغون (soygun)

  1. pillage, plunder, sack, loot, any instance of spoliation
    Synonyms: تاراج (tarac), تالان (talan), یغما (yağma)

Derived terms

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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 305b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صویغون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, 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, 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, Vienna, column 3013
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صویغون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1196