صوغان

Ottoman Turkish

صوغان

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sogan (“onion”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰣𐰍𐰽 (soɣun), Azerbaijani soğan, Chuvash сухан (suh̬an), Mongolian сонгино (songino), Tatar суган (suğan), Turkmen sogan and Tuvan согуна (soguna).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [so.ˈɣɑn], [soː.ˈɑn]
• (Western Rumelia) IPA^(key): [so.ˈɡɑn]

Noun

صوغان • (soğan)

1. onion (Allium cepa)

   Synonym: بصل (basal)

2. (botany) bulb of a plant
3. corm, a short and swollen underground stem of a plant

Derived terms

• آطه صوغانی (ada soğanı, “sea onion”)
• صوغانجی (soğancı, “seller of onions”)
• صوغانلق (soğanlık, “onion-field”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: soğan
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: со̀ган

  Latin script: sògan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “soğan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4278
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صوغان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 304b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 772
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cepa”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 169
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صوغان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3006
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “soğan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1191