صیغین

Ottoman Turkish

صیغین

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïgun; cognate with Old Turkic 𐰽𐰃𐰍𐰆𐰣 (sïgun), Azerbaijani sığın, Southern Altai суун (suun), Turkmen sugun, Tuvan сыын (sıın) and Uzbek suygun.

Noun

صیغین • (sığın)

1. moose, elk, any of various large species of deer in the genus Alces

Descendants

• Turkish: sığın

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sığın1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4192
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیغین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 779
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cervus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 173
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صغن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2960
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sığın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیغین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1200