خروس

خروس

Laki

Noun

خروس (xrus)

1. rooster, cock

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Ottoman Turkish

خروس

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian خروس‎ (xorus, “rooster, cock”).

Noun

خروس • (horos)

1. rooster, cock, an adult male of the species Gallus gallus

   Synonym: دیك‎ (dik)

2. (zoology) leader of a flock of birds during migrations

Coordinate terms

• جیوجیو‎ (civciv, “chick”)
• طاوق‎ (tavuk, “hen”)
• پلیچ‎ (piliç, “pullet”)

 

Derived terms

• خروس آیاغی‎ (horos ayağı, “cock of a firearm”)
• خروس ایبیكی‎ (horos ibiği, “cock's comb”)
• خروسباز‎ (horosbaz, “cock fighter”)
• خروسجق‎ (horoscuk, “cockerel”)
• خروس طاشی‎ (horos taşı, “small stone in a rooster's stomach”)
• خروسك‎ (horosek, “cockerel”)
• خروسلانمق‎ (horoslanmak, “to strut, give one's self airs”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: horoz
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хо̏ро̄з

  Latin: hȍrōz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “horoz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1985
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “خروس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 538
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gallus”, 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 639
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “خروس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 1888
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “horoz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “خروس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 843

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (hlws /xrōs/, “cock”, literally “the caller”), from [script needed] (hlwstn' /xrōstan/, “to call, to cry”).

Pronunciation

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /xoɾuːs/
• (Dari) IPA^(key): /xʊɾoːs/
• (Sistani) IPA^(key): /xɾos/

Noun

Dari	خروس
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хурус (xurus)

خروس • (xorus, xurōs)

1. rooster, cock

Derived terms

• خروس‌قندی‎ (xorus-qandi)

Related terms

• خروشیدن‎ (xurošīdan)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: xoruz
• → Crimean Tatar: qoraz, horaz
• → Gagauz: хороз
• → Karaim: хороз
• → Karachay-Balkar: къораз (qoraz), хораз (xoraz)
• → Kazakh: қораз (qoraz)
• → Kipchak:

  Armeno-Kipchak: խորոզ (χoroz), խորուզ (χoruz), խորսուղ (χorsuγ)

  Cuman: ghorox

  Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (ḫoroz)

• → Kyrgyz: короз (koroz)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خروس‎ (ḫoroz), خوروس‎ (ḫoroz)
  • Turkish: horoz, (dialectal) ḫoroz
  • → Armenian: խորոզ (xoroz)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: хо̏ро̄з / hȍrōz
• → Turkmen: horaz
• → Urdu: خروس‎ (xurūs)
• → Urum: хороз
• → Uyghur: خوراز‎ (xoraz)
• → Uzbek: xo'roz

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “xrōs”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 94
• Nyberg, H. S. (1974), “xrōs”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 219b
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 93a

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian خروس‎ (xorus).

Noun

خروس • (xurūs) m

1. rooster, cock