صویغون

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
  • دوگون صویغونی (düğün soygunu, “female servant at a wedding-feast”)
  • صویغونلق (soygunluk, “strippedness, undress”)

Noun

صویغون • (soygun)

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

Derived terms
  • صویغون ویرمك (soygun virmek, “to be plundered”)

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
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