Ottoman Turkish edit

 
صوغلجان

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

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 edit

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: solucan
  • Armenian: սոլուճան (solučan)

References edit

  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

Further reading edit