بویوندرق

Ottoman Turkish

بویوندرق

Alternative forms

• بویندرق (boyunduruk), بیوندرق (boyunduruk), بویوندروغ (boyunduruğ)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bōńduruk (“yoke”), an unusual development of *bōń (“neck”), whence بویون (boyun, “neck”). Cognate with Azerbaijani boyunduruq, Kazakh мойынтұрық (moiyntūryq), Kyrgyz моюнтурук (moyunturuk), Turkmen boýuntyryk, Uyghur بويۇنتۇرۇق (boyunturuq) and Uzbek boʻyinturuq.

Noun

بویوندرق • (boyunduruk)

1. yoke, a bar or frame by which two draught animals are joined at their necks

   Synonym: یوغ (yug)

2. (figuratively) yoke, oppression, something which oppresses or restrains a person

Derived terms

• بویوندرغه اورمق (boyunduruğa urmak, “to put under the yoke”)

Descendants

• Turkish: boyunduruk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boyunduruk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 665
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بویندرق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 136b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بویوندرق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 297
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Jugum”, 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 885
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بویندرق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 951
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boyunduruk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بویوندرق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 414