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Khalaj
Adjective
قوْچاق (qoçâq)
- Arabic spelling of qoçâq (“brave”)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kočaq (“hero, brave man”); equivalent to قوچ (koç, “ram; brave man”) + ـاق (-ak, noun and adjective diminutive suffix). Cognate with Azerbaijani qoçaq, Karakalpak қошшақ, Kumyk къоччакъ (qoççaq) and Turkmen goçak.
Adjective
قوچاق • (koçak)
- valiant, brave, courageous, heroic, bold, daring, doughty
Noun
قوچاق • (koçak)
- hero, somebody who possesses great bravery and courage
- Synonyms: آلپ (alp), پهلوان (pehlivân), قهرمان (kahraman), یكیت (yığıt)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koçak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2702
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوچاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 372a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوچاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 977
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Strenuus”, 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 1602
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوچاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3783
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “koçak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوچاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1481