اوكوز
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Turkic *öküŕ (“ox”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕 (öküz, “ox”), Azerbaijani öküz (“ox”), Kazakh өгіз (ögız, “ox”), Turkmen öküz (“ox”), Chuvash вӑкӑр (văk̬ăr, “bull”) and Hungarian ökör (“ox”), a Turkic borrowing.
Noun[edit]
اوكوز • (öküz)
- ox, an adult castrated bovine
- Synonym: صیغیر (sığır)
- dull, slow-witted, stupid man
- pure, good-hearted, kind man
Derived terms[edit]
- اوكوزلك (öküzlük, “slow-wittedness, stupidity”)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: öküz
Further reading[edit]
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “öküz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوكوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 264