قوقوروز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

قوقوروس‎ (kukurus)

Etymology

From Albanian kokërrëz, from kokërr (“bead, pellet, grain”).

Noun

قوقوروز • (kukuruz)

corn
maize

Descendants

Bashkir: кукуруз
Russian: кукуруза
Polish: kukurydza
Serbo-Croatian: kukuruz
Czech: kukuřice (the dialectal Czech terms turkyň, turkyňa, turkyně, and the Italian granturco, suggest that the consumption of maize spread to southeastern and east-central Europe from the Ottoman Empire)

References

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kokoroz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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