تاراج
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Persian تاراج (târâj, “plunder, pillage”).
Noun edit
تاراج • (tarac)
- pillage, plunder, sack, loot, any instance of spoliation
- booty, loot, any good seized from an enemy with violence
Derived terms edit
- تاراج ایتمك (tarac etmek, “to pillage, plunder”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: tarac
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tarac”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4603
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تاراج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 142b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تاراج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 335
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spoliatio”, 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 1587
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تاراج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1036
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تاراج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 475
Persian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Transoxianan Persian, from ultimately unknown.
Noun edit
تاراج • (târâj)