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Etymology

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Mid-17th century from a Turkic language which compounded the elements represented in Modern and Ottoman Turkish as صیر (sır, varnish, glaze, enamel) + ـغج (-gaç, -gıç, -geç, -giç).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [sʊrˈɡut͡ɕ]
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Noun

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сургу́ч (surgúčm inan (genitive сургуча́, nominative plural сургучи́, genitive plural сургуче́й, relational adjective сургу́чный)

  1. sealing wax
    • 1860, Иван Тургенев, “III”, in Первая любовь; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., First Love, 1897:
      В моё отсутствие матушка получила от новой своей соседки письмо на серой бумаге, запечатанной бурым сургучом, какой употребляется только на почтовых повестках да на пробках дешёвого вина.
      V mojó otsutstvije matuška polučila ot novoj svojej sosedki pisʹmo na seroj bumage, zapečatannoj burym surgučom, kakoj upotrebljajetsja tolʹko na počtovyx povestkax da na probkax dešóvovo vina.
      In my absence my mother had received from her new neighbour a letter on grey paper, sealed with brown wax, such as is only used in notices from the post-office or on the corks of bottles of cheap wine.

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Descendants

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  • Belarusian: сургу́ч (surhúč)
  • Ukrainian: сургу́ч (surhúč)

Further reading

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  • Krysko, V. B., editor (2011), “сургучъ”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.]‎[1] (in Russian), numbers 29 (сулегъ – тольмиже), Moscow: Nauka, Azbukovnik, →ISBN, page 48
  • сургуч in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru