قوچ
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *koč; cognate with Azerbaijani qoç, Gagauz koç, Turkmen goç and Hungarian kos.
Noun
قوچ • (koç)
- ram, an adult male of the species Ovis aries
- brave and courageous man, hero
- Synonym: یگیت (yiğit)
- (astronomy) Aries, a constellation of the zodiac
- (astrology) Aries, the zodiac sign for the ram
Derived terms
- قوچقار (koçkar, “large ram”)
- قوچلامق (koçlamak, “to serve a ewe”)
- قوچلانمق (koçlanmak, “to become a ram”)
Descendants
- Turkish: koç
- → Armenian: խոչ (xočʿ), կոչ (kočʿ), ղոչ (łočʿ)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “koç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2702
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قوچ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 977
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Aries”, 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 83
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قوچ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3783–3784
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “koç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قوچ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1483