صاغو

Old Anatolian Turkish

Alternative forms

  • ساغو (saġu)

Etymology

Unknown. Unrelated to صاغمق (saġmaq, “to milk”). [1]

Noun

صاغو • (saġu) (definite accusative صاغویی (saġuyı), plural صاغولر (saġular))

  1. a poem written to mourn a dead person, elegy, requiem, lament, dirge
    Synonym: (literary) مرثیه (mersiye)

Derived terms

  • صاغو صاغمق (saġu saġmaq, “to cry out an elegy”)
  • صاغو قیلمق (saġu qılmaq, “to lament”)
  • صاغوجی (saġucı, “elegist”)

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: صاغو (sağu)
  • → Turkish: sagu, sağu (learned)

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sagu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 805

Further reading

  • Kanar, Mehmet (2018) “sağu”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 562
  • “sağu”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977
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