طاوشان

Ottoman Turkish

طاوشان

Alternative forms

• طوشان (tavşan)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tabïĺgan (“hare”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐱃𐰉𐰽𐰍𐰣 (tabïšɣan), Azerbaijani dovşan, Karakhanid تَڤِشْغانْ (tavïšɣān), Turkmen towşan, Uyghur توشقان (toshqan), Uzbek tovushqon and Yakut табысхан (tabısqan).

Noun

طاوشان • (tavşan)

1. hare (Lepus timidus)

   Synonym: ارنب (erneb)

Derived terms

• آطه طاوشانی (ada tavşanı, “rabbit”)
• آق طاوشان (ak tavşan, “jerboa”)
• آمریقا طاوشانی (amerika tavşanı, “chinchilla”)
• طاوشان اوتی (tavşan otu, “beardgrass”)
• طاوشان قولاغی (tavşan kulağı, “cyclamen”)
• طاوشان پاچه‌سی (tavşan paçası, “kind of plant”)
• طاوشانجیل (tavşancıl, “Bonelli's eagle”)
• طاوشانلامق (tavşanlamak, “to become as thin as a hare”)
• طاوشانلی (tavşanlı, “stocked with hares”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tavşan
• → Armenian: թավշան (tʻavšan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tavşan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4647
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طوشان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 317b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طاوشان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 797
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lepus”, 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 936
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوشان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3144
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tavşan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طاوشان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1229