پوشت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بوشت (buşt)

Etymology

From Persian پشت (pušt, “rear, back”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [puʃt]

Noun

پوشت • (puşt)

1. catamite, Ganymede, a homosexual libertine who stoops to prostitution, cinaedus

Descendants

• Turkish: puşt
• → Albanian: posht
• → Armenian: փուշտ (pʻušt)
• → Aromanian: pushtu, púštu
• → Greek: πούστης (poústis)

References

• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پوشت”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 220
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1282. PÚŠTU”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 168