اوكوز

اوكوز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *öküŕ (“ox”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕‎ (öküz, “ox”), Azerbaijani öküz (“ox”), Kazakh өгіз (ögız, “ox”), Turkmen öküz (“ox”), Chuvash вӑкӑр (văk̬ăr, “bull”) and Hungarian ökör (“ox”), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

اوكوز • (öküz)

1. ox, an adult castrated bovine

   Synonym: صیغیر‎ (sığır)

2. dull, slow-witted, stupid man
3. pure, good-hearted, kind man

Derived terms

• اوكوزلك‎ (öküzlük, “slow-wittedness, stupidity”)

Descendants

• Turkish: öküz

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “öküz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اوكوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 264