پوشت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • بوشت‎ (buşt)

Etymology

From Persian پشت‎ (pušt, “rear, back”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [puʃt]

Noun

پوشت • (puşt)

  1. catamite, Ganymede, a homosexual libertine who stoops to prostitution, cinaedus

Descendants
  • Turkish: puşt
  • → Albanian: posht
  • → Armenian: փուշտ (pʿušt)
  • → Aromanian: púštu
  • → Greek: πούστης (poústis)

References
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “پوشت”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 220
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “1282. PÚŠTU”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 168
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