كُوجْ

Karakhanid

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *gǖč [1].

Noun

كُوجْ (kǖč)

  1. strength, power
    ‏اَلْبْ‌لارْ اَرِغْ اَلْقِشُرْ
    کُجْ بیٖـرْ قِلِبْ اَرْقَشُرْ
    بیٖـرْ بیٖـرْ اوُزا اَلْقِشَرْ
    اَذْکَرْمَذِبْ اُقْ اَتَارْ    ‎[2]
    Alplar arïɣ alkïšur
    Küč bīr qïlïp arqašur
    Bīr bīr üze alqašur
    Eδgermeδip oq atār
    Brave men are killing one another
    Uniting their strength, they back one another
    Face to face, they praise (?) one another
    Relentlessly shooting their arrows

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*gǖč”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Atalay, Besim (1939-1943) Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), volume I, 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, page 237
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