قوچ

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Noun

قوْچ (qoç) (definite accusative قوْچوُ, plural قوْچلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of qoç (ram)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

قوچ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *koč (ram); cognate with Azerbaijani qoç, Bashkir ҡусҡар (qusqar), Kazakh қошқар (qoşqar), Kyrgyz кочкор (kockor), Turkmen goç, Uyghur قوچقار (qochqar), Uzbek qoʻchqar and Hungarian kos.

Noun

قوچ (koç)

  1. ram, an adult male of the species Ovis aries
    Synonym: كبش (kebş)
  2. brave and courageous man, hero
    Synonyms: شاهباز (şahbaz), قهرمان (kahraman), یگیت (yiğit)
  3. (astronomy) Aries, a constellation of the zodiac
  4. (astrology) Aries, the zodiac sign for the ram

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: koç
  • Armenian: խոչ (xočʻ), կոչ (kočʻ), ղոչ (ġočʻ)

Further reading

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *koč (ram).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? qūč
Dari reading? qūč
Iranian reading? ğuč
Tajik reading? quč

Noun

قوچ (quč)

  1. ram, buck
    Antonym: میش (mêš)

References

  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “قوچ”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 747b