سوگند

Borrowed from Persian سوگند‎ (sowgand, “oath”).

سوگند • (sevgend)

1. oath, vow, a solemn pledge or promise

   Synonyms: آند‎ (and), قسم‎ (kasem), یمین‎ (yemin)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sevgend”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4174
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سوگند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 702
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Juramentum”, 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 887
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سوگند”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2714
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سوگند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1093

From Middle Persian swknd (sōgand, “oath”), from Avestan [Term?] (/saokanta/, “sulphur”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewk- (“white”). Related to سوختن‎ (suxtan, “to burn”), and سوگ‎ (sug, “sadness, mourning”).

Originally سوگند‎ (sowgand) was a sulphur-filled drink given to defendants to determine the truth based on their body reaction to Sulphur.[1]

سوگند • (sowgand) (plural سوگندها‎ (sowgand-hâ))

1. oath

• (oath): قسم‎ (qasam)

• سوگند خوردن‎ (sowgand xordan)

• → Ottoman Turkish: سوگند‎ (sevgend)

From Persian سوگند‎ (sowgand).

سوگند • (saugand) f (Hindi spelling सौगन्द)

1. oath, asseveration

• قسم‎ (qasam)
• سونھ‎ (sauṅh)
• شپتھ‎ (śapath)

• John T. Platts (accessed 11-15-2012), “A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎