بوراغان

Ottoman Turkish

بوراغان

Alternative forms

• بوران (buran)

Etymology

Perhaps from بور (bur-, “to twist”) + ـغان (-ğan, -ağan, “habitual suffix”): compare اولاغان (olağan) and یتاغان (yatağan) with the same suffix. Alternatively, from a derivation of Proto-Turkic *bora- (“north wind; to snow heavily”), the same root of بورا (bora, “squall, tempest”); cognate with Bashkir буран (buran), Crimean Tatar boran, Kazakh боран (boran), Kyrgyz бороон (boroon) and Turkmen boran. Also compare Mongolian бороон (boroon, “rain”), which derives from Classical Mongolian ᠪᠣᠷᠣᠭᠠᠨ (boroɣan).

Noun

بوراغان • (burağan)

1. whirlwind, tornado, a violent windstorm characterized by the formation of a vortex of air

   Synonyms: زوبعه (zevbaʿa), طولومبه (tulumba), قاصرغه (kasırga)

Related terms

• بورا (bora, “squall, tempest”)

Descendants

• Turkish: burağan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burağan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 699
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوراغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 282
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوراغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 393