قوش

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See also: قوس and قۇش

Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قوش (kuş, the rump or hock of a horse).

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Pronunciation

Noun

قُوش (qūšm (plural أَقْوَاش (ʔaqwāš))

  1. crupper (thong to keep the saddle from sliding forth)

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قوش”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 515
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قوش”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 834
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “قوش”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 932
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قوش”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1065

Chagatai

Etymology 1

From Common Turkic *kuš (bird), from Proto-Turkic *kuĺ (bird).

Noun

قوش (quş)

  1. bird
  2. butterfly
  3. presage, omen
Descendants
  • Uyghur: قۇش (qush)
  • Uzbek: qush

Etymology 2

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Noun

قوش (qoş)

  1. drove, team, pair, yoke
  2. camp, companions, troop, group
  3. station, tent, house; house utensils, supellex

Khalaj

Noun

قوُش (quş) (definite accusative قوُشوُ, plural قوُشلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of quş (sparrow)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

قوشلر

Etymology 1

Inherited from Common Turkic *kuš (bird), from Proto-Turkic *kuĺ (bird); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰽 (kuş), Azerbaijani quş, Bashkir ҡош (qoş), Kazakh құс (qūs), Kyrgyz куш (kuş), Turkmen guş, Uyghur قۇش (qush) and Uzbek qush.

Noun

قوش (kuş)

  1. bird, any member of the class of animals Aves, characterized by having feathers and wings
    Synonyms: طیر (tayr), مرغ (murg)
Derived terms
Descendants

Further reading

قوش

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *koĺ- (pair, couple, to join, unite), the same root of قوشمق (koşmak, to connect, join, attach). Cognate with Chagatai قوش (qoş), Kazakh қос (qos), Khakas хос (xos), Kyrgyz кош (koş), Southern Altai кош (koš) and Yakut хос (qos).

Noun

قوش (koş)

  1. yoke, team, a pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something
    Synonym: چفت (çift)
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Koĺ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

قوشلر

Etymology 3

Compare قوسقون (kuskun, crupper), Turkish kaşka (white spot on the forehead of animals) and Kazakh құйысқан (qūiysqan).

Noun

قوش (kuş)

  1. rump or hock of a horse, cavity on the croupe of a steed
  2. bald spot on the rump of an old horse
Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From a Turkic language, from Proto-Turkic *kuĺ (bird), cognate to Ottoman Turkish قوش (kuş), Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰽 (qus¹), Azerbaijani quş, etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

قوش (quš)

  1. falcon
  2. hawk

Descendants