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From Persian سنگین (sangin, “heavy”), possibly via Ottoman Turkish زنگین (zengin). /s/ → /z/ has been a frequent sound shift in specific dialects descending from Old Anatolian Turkish, often obfuscated by conservative Arabic-script spellings. Compare Azerbaijani ziyil (cf. Turkish siğil), zopa (cf. Turkish sopa), and zindan (“anvil”) which also underwent this irregular initial voicing. Doublet of səngin.
zəngin (comparative daha zəngin, superlative ən zəngin)
- rich, wealthy (having a lot of money and possessions)
- Synonym: varlı
- rich (plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling)
- Dmitrijev, Nikolai Konstantinovich (1933) “Gagausische Lautlehre III”, in Archiv Orientální (in German), volume 5, § 53, page 112