پوشت

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Persian پشت (pošt, rear, back).

Pronunciation

Noun

پوشت (puşt)

  1. catamite, Ganymede, a homosexual libertine who stoops to prostitution, cinaedus

Descendants

  • Turkish: puşt
  • Albanian: posht
  • Armenian: փուշտ (pʻušt)
  • Aromanian: pushtu
  • Greek: πούστης (poústis)
  • Romanian: puști

References

  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پوشت”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 220
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1282. PÚŠTU”, 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vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 168