قودوش

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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)

  1. cuckold, wittol, mari complaisant
    Synonyms: ترس (teres), بوینوزلو (boynuzlu), دیوث (deyyus), كراتا (kerata)
  2. pimp, pander, souteneur
    Synonyms: ترس (teres), پزونك (pezevenk)
  3. ruffian, wild mendicant dervish, popinjay; someone lazy and naughty

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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 [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, pages 102–103