قوچ

Khalaj

Noun

قوْچ (qoç) (definite accusative قوْچوُ, plural قوْچلار)

1. Arabic spelling of qoç (“ram”)

Declension

Declension of قوچ

	singular	plural
nominative	قوچ	قوچلار
genitive	قوچؽݧ	قوچلارؽݧ
dative	قوچقا	قوچلارقا
definite accusative	قوچؽ	قوچلارؽ
locative	قوچچا	قوچلارچا
ablative	قوچدا	قوچلاردا
instrumental	قوچلا	قوچلارلا
equative	قوچوارا	قوچلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

قوچ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *koč (“ram”); cognate with Azerbaijani qoç, Bashkir ҡусҡар (qusqar), Kazakh қошқар (qoşqar), Kyrgyz кочкор (kockor), Turkmen goç, Uyghur قوچقار (qochqar), Uzbek qoʻchqar and Hungarian kos.

Noun

قوچ • (koç)

1. ram, an adult male of the species Ovis aries

   Synonym: كبش (kebş)

2. brave and courageous man, hero

   Synonyms: شاهباز (şahbaz), قهرمان (kahraman), یگیت (yiğit)

3. (astronomy) Aries, a constellation of the zodiac
4. (astrology) Aries, the zodiac sign for the ram

Derived terms

• قوچقار (koçkar, “large ram”)
• قوچلامق (koçlamak, “to serve a ewe”)
• قوچلانمق (koçlanmak, “to become a ram”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: koç
• → Armenian: խոչ (xočʻ), կոչ (kočʻ), ղոչ (ġočʻ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2702
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوچ”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 372a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوچ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 977
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Aries”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 83
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوچ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 3783–3784
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “koç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوچ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1483

Persian

Alternative forms

• غوچ (ǧuč), قچ (qoč), قج (qoj), قوج (quj)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *koč (“ram”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [quːt͡ʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [quːt͡ʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [quːt͡ʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [quːt͡ʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qut͡ʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [quːt͡ʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qut͡ʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	qūč
Dari reading?	qūč
Iranian reading?	ğuč
Tajik reading?	quč

Noun

قوچ • (quč)

1. ram, buck

   Antonym: میش (mêš)

References

• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “قوچ”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[6] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 747b