صوغوق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• صغوق (soğuk), صووق (sovuk)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sogïk (“cold”); cognate with Azerbaijani soyuq, Bashkir һыуыҡ (hıwıq), Chuvash сивӗ (sivĕ), Kazakh суық (suyq), Kyrgyz суук (suuk), Tatar суык (suwıq), Turkmen sowuk, Uyghur سوغۇق (soghuq) and Uzbek sovuq.

Adjective

صوغوق • (soğuk or sovuk)

1. cold, frigid, having a low temperature

   Synonyms: بارد (barid), سرد (serd)

2. cold, unfriendly, emotionally distant
3. (of remarks, etc.) harsh, that hurts the feelings

Derived terms

• صوغوق بولاق (soğuk bulak, “cold spring of water”)
• صوغوق سوز (soğuk söz, “offensive word”)
• صوغوق طورمق (soğuk turmak, “to look on coldly”)
• صوغوقجه (soğukca, “coldish”)
• صوغوقلاتمق (soğuklatmak, “to make or let catch a cold”)
• صوغوقلامق (soğuklamak, “to catch a cold”)
• صوغوقلق (soğukluk, “coldness”)
• صوغوقلو (soğuklu, “possessed of cold”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: soğuk

Noun

صوغوق • (soğuk)

1. cold, a condition of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere, characterized by the lack of heat

   Synonym: سرما (serma)

2. cold, a common viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever

   Synonyms: زكام (zükâm), طوماغی (tumağı), نزله (nezle)

Derived terms

• آجی صوغوقلر (acı soğuklar, “bitter cold weather”)
• صوغوق آلمق (soğuk almak, “to become cold”)
• صوغوق باصمق (soğuk basmak, “to set in (of cold weather)”)
• صوغوق یاقمق (soğuk yakmak, “to burn (of frost or cold)”)
• صوغوقلر (soğuklar, “cold weather”)

 

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “soğuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4280
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صووق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 304b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوغوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 773
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Frigidus”, 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 617
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صووق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3013
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “soğuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوغوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1192