بوغان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بوغـ (boğ-, “to choke, strangle, suffocate”) +‎ ـان (-an).

Adjective

بوغان • (boğan)

choking, strangling, suffocating, stifling, that chokes, strangles, or suffocates
Synonym: خانق (hanık)

Derived terms

ایت بوغان (it boğan, “dogbane”)
قورت بوغان (kurt boğan, “wolfbane”)

Descendants

Turkish: boğan

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boğan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 642
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوغان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 289
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوغان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 403

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