چوگان

Ottoman Turkish

چوگان

Alternative forms

չէվկեան (çevgân) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (čowgân, “crosier; polo stick”), itself from Middle Persian cwpkʾn' (“polo stick”).

Noun

چوگان • (çevgân)

jereed, a blunt javelin used by the Turkish people, especially in mock fights
Synonym: جرید (cirid)
polo-stick, mallet, the wooden stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo
Synonym: صولجان (sevlecan)
crook, a hooked staff used by horsemen to collect weapons from the ground
Turkish crescent, a percussion instrument traditionally used by military bands

Derived terms

چوگانباز (çevgânbaz, “polo player”)
چوگاندار (çevgândar, “esquire who carries a polo-stick”)
چوگانزن (çevgânzen, “Turkish crescent player”)

Descendants

Turkish: çevgan, çevgen
→ Romanian: cioian

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çevgân”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 945
Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “çevgân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 190
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوگان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 480
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clava lusoria”, 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 190
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چوگان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1682
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çevgan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوگان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 738

Persian

Alternative forms

چولگان (čowlagân), چویگان (čuygân)

Etymology

From Middle Persian cwpkʾn' (čōbagān, *čaw(la)gān), cwgʾn' (čōgān).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃaw.ˈɡɑːn]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäw.ɡɑ́ːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäw.ɡɑ́ːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäw.ɡɔ́ːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰow.ɡɒ́ːn]
- (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰoː.ɡɒ́ːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäw.ɡɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading^?	čawgān
Dari reading^?	čawgān
Iranian reading^?	čowgân
Tajik reading^?	čavgon

Noun

چوگان • (čowgân)

(archaic) crosier
polo-stick
- 977-1010, Ferdowsi, Shahnameh
  ز چوگان او گوی شد ناپدید
  تو گفتی سپهرش همی‌برکشید
  zi čawgān-i ō gōy šud nāpadīd
  tu guftī sipihraš hamē-bar-kašīd
  From [the kick of] his polo-stick, the ball disappeared
  It looked such that it was surpassing the heavens
polo

Synonyms

گوی و چوگان (gôy-o-čowgân)

Derived terms

چوگان‌باز (čowgân-bâz)

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