قودوش
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Armenian կոտոշ (kotoš, “horn”), having in Western dialects the forms կոդոշ (kodoš), գոդոշ (godoš), from the idea of a wittol being horned.
Noun
قودوش • (kodoş) (slang)
- cuckold, wittol, mari complaisant
- Synonyms: ترس (teres), بوینزلو (boynuzlu), دیوث (deyyus), كراتا (kerata)
- pimp, pander, souteneur
- Synonyms: ترس (teres), پزونك (pezevenk)
- ruffian, wild mendicant dervish, popinjay; someone lazy and naughty
Derived terms
- قودوشلق (kodoşluk, “pimping, pandering”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kodoş, godoş
- → Albanian: kodosh
- → Aromanian: cudósh
- → Bulgarian: кодо́ш (kodóš)
- → Macedonian: кодош (kodoš)
- → Romanian: codóș
- → Serbo-Croatian: (Kumanovo)
- Cyrillic: кодо́ш
- Latin: kodóš
References
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 84–85
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912), Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 271
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قودوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3786
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “CUDÓŠ sb. m.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, pages 102–103