طالغین
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From طالـ (dal-, “to dive, plunge”) + ـغین (-gın).
Adjective
طالغین • (dalgın)
- pensive, absent-minded, meditative, thoughtful, abstracted
- Synonym: دوشونجهلی (düşünceli)
- sleepy, drowsy, somnolent, lethargic, sleepbound, dozy
Derived terms
- طالغینلق (dalgınlık, “absent-mindedness; lethargy”)
Descendants
- Turkish: dalgın
- → Armenian: տալղըն (talġən)
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “طالغین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 266
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dalgın”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1086
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طالغین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 795
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924), “pensive”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 397b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dalgın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طالغین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1227