صراجه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سراجه (sirâce, “kind of horse disease”).

Noun

صراجه • (sıraca) (definite accusative صراجه‌یی (sıracayı), plural صراجه‌لر (sıracalar))

1. scrofula, a form of tuberculosis tending to cause enlarged and degenerated lymph nodes

   Synonym: اور (ur)

Derived terms

• صراجه اوتی (sıraca otu, “figwort”)
• صراجه‌لو (sıracalı, “scrophulous”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sıraca
• → Albanian: saraxha
• → Armenian: սըռաճա (səṙača)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “صراجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 204
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sıraca1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4210
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صراجه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 298b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صراجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 759
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Struma”, 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, Vienna, column 1605
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صراجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2947
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sıraca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صراجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1172