بوزان
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From بوزـ (boz-, “to spoil, ruin, destroy”) + ـان (-an).
Adjective
بوزان • (bozan)
Derived terms
- آلای بوزان (alay bozan, “blunderbuss”)
- اویون بوزان (oyun bozan, “spoilsport, killjoy”)
- دمیر بوزان (demir bozan, “antimony”)
- نماز بوزان (namâz bozan, “anything that invalidates the divine worship”)
Descendants
- Turkish: bozan
Verb
بوزان • (bozan)
- imperfect participle of بوزمق (bozmak)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bozan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 666
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوزان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 285
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 398