صاواش

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• صواش (savaş)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *saba- (“to beat, hit, fight”), the same root of صاواشمق (savaşmak, “to fight, quarrel, combat”); cognate with Azerbaijani savaş and Turkmen söweş.

Noun

صاواش • (savaş)

1. effort, endeavor, a determined or assiduous attempt towards a specific goal
2. battle, fight, combat, a military action in which two or more armies are engaged

   Synonyms: اوغراش (oğraş), پرخاش (perhaş), جنك (cenk), دوگش (döğüş), ناورد (naverd)

Derived terms

• صاواش یری (savaş yeri, “battlefield”)
• صاواشجی (savaşcı, “fighter, brawler”)

Descendants

• Turkish: savaş
• → Middle Armenian: սավաշ (savaš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “savaş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4091
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صواش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 303b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صاواش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 752
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pugna”, 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 1401
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صواش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 2999-3000
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “savaş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاواش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1163