بوغان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بوغـ (boğ-, “to choke, strangle, suffocate”) +‎ ـان (-an).

Adjective

بوغان • (boğan)

1. choking, strangling, suffocating, stifling, that chokes, strangles, or suffocates

   Synonym: خانق (hanık)

Derived terms

• ایت بوغان (it boğan, “dogbane”)
• قورت بوغان (kurt boğan, “wolfbane”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: boğan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boğan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 642
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 289
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 403