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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *oglan (“children”) and thus related to اوغل (oğul, “son”); cognate with Azerbaijani oğlan, Bashkir улан (ulan), Crimean Tatar oğlan, Kazakh ұлан (ūlan), Tatar олан (olan), Turkmen oglan and Uzbek oʻgʻlon.
Noun
اوغلان • (oğlan)
- boy, lad, youth, a young male
- Synonyms: اوشاق (uşak), پسر (pıser), غلام (ğulam)
- knave, jack in playing cards
- Synonyms: باجاق (bacak), فانتی (fanti)
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oğlan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3591
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوغلان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 82b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوغلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 192
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Puer”, 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 1400
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوغلان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 524
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oğlan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوغلان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 257