Ottoman Turkish

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صوغلجان

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïbuĺgan (worm);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani soxulcan, Bashkir селәүсен (seləwsen), Kazakh шылаушын (şylauşyn), Tatar суалчан (suwalçan) and Uzbek chuvalchang.

Noun

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صوغلجان (soğulcan)

  1. earthworm, any worm in the family Lumbricidae
  2. helminth, any parasitic worm like the tapeworm or the fluke
  3. (in general) worm, a generally tubular invertebrate
    Synonym: قورت (kurt)
  4. (figuratively) trickster, deceiver, rogue, scoundrel

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: solucan
  • Armenian: սոլուճան (solučan)

References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sɨbuĺgan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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