سازان

Ottoman Turkish

سازان

Alternative forms

• صازان (sazan)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *siāŕgan (“carp; snake, dragon”); cognate with Azerbaijani sazan, Bashkir һазан (hazan), Crimean Tatar sazan, Kazakh сазан (sazan), Turkmen sazan and Uzbek sazan.

Noun

سازان • (sazan)

1. common carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Descendants

• Turkish: sazan
• → Greek: σαζάνι (sazáni)
• → Middle Armenian: սազան (sazan)
• → Russian: саза́н (sazán)
  • → English: sazan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sazan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4106
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سازان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 658
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Carpio”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 156
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سازان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2514
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sazan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سازان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1027