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Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian کالهجوش (kâle-juš).
Pronunciation
Noun
kelecoş
(dialectal)
- (Amasya, Artvin, Iğdır, Erzincan, Van, Elazığ, Sivas) a dish made of roast and low-fat cheese placed over chopped bread or yufka
- (Kars) a drink made of garlic yogurt poured over grated beetroot
- (Van) a dish made of fried onions, lentils, walnuts etc.
Further reading
- “kelecoş”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume VIII, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1975, page 2726
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 87, page 33
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 8, derives from Armenian գայլաճօշ (gaylačōš) as if գայլ (gayl) + -ա- (-a-) + ճաշ (čaš), but no such word exists in Armenian
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kelecoş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, derives from Armenian կալաճաշ (kalačaš) as if կալ (kal) + -ա- (-a-) + ճաշ (čaš), but no such word exists in Armenian