صوی آت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صوی (soy, “race, breed; lineage”) + آت (at, “horse”).

Noun

صوی آت • (soy at)

1. blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized stock

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوی آت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 4
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوی آت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 17