قوز

See also: قور‎, فور‎, and فوز‎

Chagatai
قوز

Etymology

Iranian borrowing, see Old Armenian ընկոյզ (ənkoyz) for more.

Noun

قوز (qoz)

  1. walnut

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Of unknown origin. Compare Russian ко́зырь (kózyrʹ, “trump”), also of unknown origin, and compare Romanian coz (“trump”), according to some borrowed from Turkish and to others shortened from Russian. Ultimately it could be from German Kaiser.

Noun

قوز • (koz)

  1. trump

Descendants

References
  • Meyer, Gustav (1892), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 60
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “قوز”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 716
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