صولوق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• صولق (soluk)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sōlïk (“breath”), from *sōlï- (“to breathe”), the same root of صولومق (solumak, “to breathe”); cognate with Azerbaijani soluq.

Noun

صولوق • (soluk)

1. breath, the act or process of breathing

   Synonyms: باد (bâd), دم (dam), نفس (nefes)

2. pant, gasp, a violent or stertorous breath

Derived terms

• صولوقلانمق (soluklanmak, “to take breath”)

Descendants

• Turkish: soluk
• → Armenian: սոլուխ (solux)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “soluk2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4289
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صولق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 305a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صولوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 775
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Halitus”, 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 685
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صولوق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3011
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “soluk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صولوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1194