طاوشان
Ottoman Turkish
editAlternative forms
edit- طوشان (tavşan)
Etymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *tabïĺgan (“hare”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐱃𐰉𐰽𐰍𐰣 (tabïšɣan), Azerbaijani dovşan, Karakhanid تَڤِشْغانْ (tavïšɣān), Turkmen towşan, Uyghur توشقان (toshqan), Uzbek tovushqon and Yakut табысхан (tabısqan).
Noun
editطاوشان • (tavşan)
- hare (Lepus timidus)
- Synonym: ارنب (erneb)
Derived terms
edit- آطه طاوشانی (ada tavşanı, “rabbit”)
- آق طاوشان (ak tavşan, “jerboa”)
- آمریقا طاوشانی (amerika tavşanı, “chinchilla”)
- طاوشان اوتی (tavşan otu, “beardgrass”)
- طاوشان قولاغی (tavşan kulağı, “cyclamen”)
- طاوشان پاچهسی (tavşan paçası, “kind of plant”)
- طاوشانجیل (tavşancıl, “Bonelli's eagle”)
- طاوشانلامق (tavşanlamak, “to become as thin as a hare”)
- طاوشانلی (tavşanlı, “stocked with hares”)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tavşan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4647
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طوشان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 317b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طاوشان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 797
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lepus”, 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 936
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوشان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3144
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tavşan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طاوشان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1229