پزونك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پوزونك (püzevenk, pözevenk)

Etymology

From Middle Armenian բոզաւագ (bozawag, “procurer, whoremaster, pimp”), from Old Armenian բոզաւագ (bozawag, “procurer, whoremaster, pimp”).

Noun

پزونك • (pezevenk)

1. procurer, whoremaster, pimp, mackerel, bawd

Derived terms

• پزونكلك (pezevenklik, “pimping, procuring, proxenetism”)

Descendants

• Turkish: pezevenk

References

• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 29
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پزونك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 812
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پوزونك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 921
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پزونك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 196