صوغلجان

Ottoman Turkish

صوغلجان

Alternative forms

  • صوغولجان (soğulcan)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïbuĺgan (worm)[1]; cognate with Azerbaijani soxulcan, Bashkir селәүсен (seläwsen), Kazakh шылаушын (şylauşyn), Tatar суалчан (sualçan) and Uzbek chuvalchang.

Noun

صوغلجان (soğulcan)

  1. earthworm, any worm in the family Lumbricidae
  2. helminth, any parasitic worm like the tapeworm or the fluke
  3. (in general) worm, a generally tubular invertebrate
    Synonym: قورت (kurt)
  4. (figuratively) trickster, deceiver, rogue, scoundrel

Derived terms

  • شریت صوغلجان (şerit soğulcan, tapeworm)
  • صوغلجان اوتی (soğulcan otu, tansy)
  • صوغلجانلو (soğulcanlı, infested with worms)
  • یر صوغلجانی (yer soğulcanı, earthworm)

Descendants

  • Turkish: solucan
  • Armenian: սոլուճան (solučan)

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *sɨbuĺgan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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