کوسه

See also: كوشه, كوشة, گوشه, and كوسة

Persian

یک کوسه
A shark

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (kwsk' /⁠kōsag⁠/, “shark; *beardless”), attested in Bundahishn 23.2. Cognate with Khwarezmian کوسیک (kwsyk /⁠*kõsə(k)⁠/), کوسک (kwsk /⁠*kõsak ~ *kōsē⁠/, “beardless”). Compare Arabic كَوْسَج (kawsaj), Old Georgian კოსაკი (ḳosaḳi), კოვსაკი (ḳovsaḳi), Middle Armenian գոսակ (gosak), Armenian քոսակ (kʻosak), Iranian borrowings. Note also Udi куси (kusi, “witch”), Old Armenian կոյս (koys, “virgin”).

According to Corriente, the fish is probably so called on account of its lack of scales.

Pronunciation

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [kʰuːˈse]

Noun

کوسه • (kuse) (plural کوسه‌ها (kuse-hâ))

1. shark
2. man with little or no beard
3. a carnival character known to the medieval and modern folklore of central and western Persia

Derived terms

• کوسه ببری (kuse-ye babri)
• کوسه بزرگ سفید (kuse-ye bozorg-e sefid)
• کوسه سرچکشی (kuse-ye sar-čakkoši)

Descendants

• →? Arabic: كُوسَا (kūsā)
• → Azerbaijani: kosa
• → Georgian: ქოსა (kosa)
  • Ossetian: ко́са (kósa) (possibly)
• → Middle Armenian: քօսա (kʻōsa), քոսայ (kʻosay)
• → Ottoman Turkish: كوسه (köse)
  • Turkish: köse
  • → Albanian: qose
  • → Armenian: քէօսէ (kʻēōsē)
  • → Bulgarian: кьосе́ (kjosé)
  • → Macedonian: ќос (ḱos)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ćȍsav／ћо̏сав
• → Uyghur: كوسا (kosa)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գոսակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 582b
• Asatrian, Mushegh (2006) “Iranian Elements in Arabic: The State of Research”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, page 101
• Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 461a
• Eilers, Wilhelm (1953) Der alte Name des persischen Neujahrsfestes (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 1953.2)‎^[3] (in German), Mainz: Verl. der Akad. der Wiss. und der Literatur, pages 9–11, footnote 1
• Gippert, Jost (1993) Iranica Armeno-Iberica: Studien zu den iranischen Lehnwörtern im Armenischen und Georgischen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 606. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik; 26)‎^[4] (in German), volume I, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 165–166
• Hassandoust, Mohammad (2014/2015) Bahman Sarkarati, editor, Farhang-e riše-šenâxti-ye zabân-e Farsi [An Etymological Dictionary of the Persian Language] (in Persian), volume IV: K-Y, Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature, →ISBN , page 2292
• Krasnowolska, Anna (2006) “KUSA”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York