صوچ

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• صوج (suc)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *suč (“fault; sin”), a development of *su- (“to bend, deviate”). Cognate with Azerbaijani suç.

Noun

صوچ • (suç)

1. fault, guilt, blame, the responsibility for a mistake or wrongdoing

   Synonyms: ذنب (zenb), گناه (günah)

2. crime, misdeed, offence, any act committed in violation of the law

   Synonyms: جرم (cürm), جنایت (cinayet), گناه (günah)

3. (religion) sin, a transgression against divine law or a law of God

   Synonyms: گناه (günah), وبال (vebal)

Derived terms

• صوچ آتمق (suç atmak, “to attribute an offence to a person”)
• صوچ یوكلنمك (suç yüklenmek, “to lay blame on a person”)
• صوچسز (suçsuz, “innocent”)
• صوچلو (suçlu, “guilty; culprit”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: suç
• → Armenian: սուչ (sučʻ), սուջ (suǰ), սուճ (suč)
• → Iraqi Arabic: صوچ (ṣūç)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “suç1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4344
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صوچ”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 303b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 770
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Culpa”, 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 307
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صوچ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3001
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “suç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوچ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190