پزونك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Armenian բոզաւագ (bozawag, “procurer, whoremaster, pimp”), from Old Armenian բոզաւագ (bozawag, “procurer, whoremaster, pimp”).

Noun

پزونك • (pezevenk)

  1. procurer, whoremaster, pimp, mackerel, bawd

Derived terms
  • پزونكلك‎ (pezevenklik, “pimping, procuring, proxenetism”)

Descendants

References
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 29
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پزونك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 812
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پوزونك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 921
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “پزونك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 196
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