بوغان
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From بوغـ (boğ-, “to choke, strangle, suffocate”) + ـان (-an).
Adjective[edit]
بوغان • (boğan)
- choking, strangling, suffocating, stifling, that chokes, strangles, or suffocates
- Synonym: خانق (hanık)
Derived terms[edit]
- ایت بوغان (it boğan, “dogbane”)
- قورت بوغان (kurt boğan, “wolfbane”)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: boğan
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boğan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 642
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 289
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 403