صوپه
Ottoman Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- صوپا (sopa)
Etymology edit
It evolved from the Persian word چوبه (čube, “stick, staff, rod”), showing the evolution of c/ç > /z/ typical of Anatolian dialects. Cognate with Azerbaijani zopa.
Noun edit
صوپه • (sopa)
- cudgel, bat, a stout stick with a rounded head used as a weapon
- ferule, a ruler-shaped instrument, used to slap children on the hand
- Synonym: دگنك (değenek)
- bastinado, a blow with a cudgel or stick, or a beating with sticks
Derived terms edit
- بكجی صوپهسی (bekci sopası, “watchman's staff”)
- صوپه آتمق (sopa atmak, “to cudgel, to beat with a stick”)
- صوپه یمك (sopa yemek, “to get a good cudgeling”)
- صوپهلو (sopalı, “provided with a stick”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: sopa, zopa
- → Armenian: սօփա (sōpʻa), զոփա (zopʻa)
- → Bulgarian: со́па (sópa)
- → Georgian: ზოფა (zopa) — Adjara
- → Greek: σόπα (sópa)
- → Romanian: sopă
- → Serbo-Croatian: со̀па／sòpa
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sopa1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4297
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صوپه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 303b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوپه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 770
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Baculus”, 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 112
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صوپه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3001
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sopa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوپا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1189