چاوش
Ottoman Turkish
Noun
چاوش • (çavuş, çauş)
Descendants
- Turkish: çavuş
- → Arabic: جَاوِيش (jāwīš)
- → Albanian: çaush
- → Aromanian: [Term?], čiaúš
- → Bulgarian: чау̀ш (čaùš)
- → English: chiaus
- → French: chaoux
- → Byzantine Greek: τσαούσης, τζαούσιος, τζάσις (tsaoúsēs, tzaoúsios, tzásis)
- → Latin: ciausius
- → Macedonian: чауш (čauš)
- → Persian: چاوش / چاووش (čâvuš)
- → Romanian: ceauș, ceaúș
- → Serbo-Croatian:
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, columns 1568–1569
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot][2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 108
- Zachariadou, Elizabeth (1978) “Observations on some Turcica of Pachymeres”, in Revue des études byzantines[3], volume 36, page 265
Persian
Alternative forms
- چاووش (čâvoš)
Etymology
Shortened of Persian چاوش خوان (čāvoš-xwān) or چاوشگر (čāvošgar), probably related to Persian verb چاویدن (čāvidan, “to tweet, chirp; to cry aloud”), actually should be pronounced čāveš, but in Iranian Persian suffix -eš after āv pronounced -oš, compare with کاوش (kāvoš), تراوش (tarāvoš). At least the sense “apparitor, beadle” derives from Turkic, specifically from the Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş).
Noun
چاوش • (čâvoš)
- (historical) the head of a caravan who loudly sang poems in medieval Persia
- (obsolete) beadle, apparitor, usher, pursuivant, messenger, herald
- (dialectal, Khorasan) singing