خروس

Laki

Noun

خروس (xrus)

1. rooster, cock

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian خروس (xorus).

Noun

خروس • (ḫoroz)

1. rooster, cock

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (hlws /⁠xrōs⁠/, “cock”, literally “the caller”), from [script needed] (hlwstn' /⁠xrōstan⁠/, “to call, to cry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xoɾuːs/
• IPA^(key): /xʊɾoːs/
• (Sistani) IPA^(key): /xɾos/

Noun

Dari	خروس
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хурус

خروس • (xorus, xurōs)

1. rooster, cock

Derived terms

• خروس‌قندی (xorus-qandi)

Related terms

• خروشیدن (xurošīdan)

Descendants

• Tajik: хурӯс (xurüs)
• → Azerbaijani: xoruz
• → Crimean Tatar: qoraz, horaz
• → Gagauz: хороз
• → Karaim: хороз
• → Karachay-Balkar: къораз (qoraz), хораз (xoraz)
• → Kazakh: қораз (qoraz)
• → Kipchak:

  Armeno-Kipchak: խորոզ (χoroz), խորուզ (χoruz), խորսուղ (χorsuγ)

  Cuman: ghorox

  Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (ḫoroz)

• → Kyrgyz: короз (koroz)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خروس (ḫoroz), خوروس (ḫoroz)
  • Turkish: horoz, (dialectal) ḫoroz
  • → Middle Armenian: խորոզ (xoroz)
    • Armenian: խորոզ (xoroz)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: хо̏ро̄з / hȍrōz
• → Turkmen: horaz
• → Urdu: خروس (xurūs)
• → Urum: хороз
• → Uyghur: خوراز (xoraz)
• → Uzbek: xo'roz

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xrōs”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 94
• Nyberg, H. S. (1974) “xrōs”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 219b
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 93a

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian خروس (xorus).

Noun

خروس • (xurūs) m

1. rooster, cock