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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From صوی (soy-, “to strip, undress; to pillage, rob”) + ـغون (-gun).
Adjective
صویغون • (soygun)
- stripped, undressed, having undergone stripping, laid bare
Derived terms
- دوگون صویغونی (düğün soygunu, “female servant at a wedding-feast”)
- صویغونلق (soygunluk, “strippedness, undress”)
Noun
صویغون • (soygun)
- pillage, plunder, sack, loot, any instance of spoliation
- Synonyms: تاراج (tarac), تالان (talan), یغما (yağma)
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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