دوگون

Ottoman Turkish

دوگون

Alternative forms

• دوگن (düğün)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tügün (“knot; contract”), a development of *tüg- (“to tie in a knot; make a loop”), from which also دوگوم (düğüm, “knot”).

Noun

دوگون • (düğün)

1. wedding, nuptials, the ceremony that marks the beginning of a marriage

   Synonyms: سور (sur), عرس (ʼurs)

Derived terms

• دوگون اوی (düğün evi, “house where a wedding is held”)
• دوگون چیچكی (düğün çiçeği, “buttercup”)
• دوگونجی (düğüncü, “wedding-goer”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: düğün
• → Armenian: տիւյիւն (tiwyiwn)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “düğün2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1321
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دوگون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 235b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوگون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 591
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nuptiæ”, 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 1162
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوگون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2182
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “düğün”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوگون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 926