تاراج

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تاراج (târâj, plunder, pillage).

Noun

تاراج • (tarac)

  1. pillage, plunder, sack, loot, any instance of spoliation
    Synonyms: تالان (talan), صویغون (soygun), یغما (yağma)
  2. booty, loot, any good seized from an enemy with violence

Derived terms

  • تاراج ایتمك (tarac etmek, to pillage, plunder)

Descendants

  • Turkish: tarac

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tarac”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4603
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تاراج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 142b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تاراج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 335
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spoliatio”, 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, Vienna, column 1587
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تاراج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1036
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تاراج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 475

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Transoxianan Persian, from ultimately unknown.

Noun

تاراج • (târâj)

  1. plunder

Descendants

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