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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پوشه (poşa),[1] from Armenian բոշա (boša).[2][3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpo.ʃa/
- Hyphenation: po‧şa
Noun
poşa (definite accusative poşayı, plural poşalar)
- (dialectal) Someone who makes and sells sieves.
- (dialectal, derogatory) A Gypsy, or a Gypsy woman.
- Synonym: Çingene
Declension
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پوشه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 459
- ^ Kraelitz-Greifenhorst, Friedrich von (1911) “Armenische Lehnwörter im Türkischen”, in Handes Amsorya, volume 25, numbers 4–5 (overall work in German and Armenian), Vienna, column 259
- ^ Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 66, page 30
Further reading
- “poşa”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “poşa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3886