قوسقون

Ottoman Turkish

قوسقون

Alternative forms

• قوسغون (kusğun), قوسقن (kuskun)
• գուսգուն (kuskun), գուսղուն (kusğun) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kuduzgun (“crupper”), perhaps a derivation from *kudruk (“tail”). Cognate with Kazakh құйысқан (qūiysqan, “crupper”). Compare also Mongolian хударга (xudarga, “crupper”).

Noun

قوسقون • (kuskun)

1. crupper, a strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping

   Synonyms: پاردم (pardüm), ثفر (sefer)

Derived terms

• قوسقون یری (kuskun yeri, “rump”)
• قوسقونسز (kuskunsuz, “crupperless”)
• قوسقونی دوشوك (kuskunu düşük, “drooping-rumped”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kuskun
• → Armenian: խուսխուն (xusxun), ղուսղուն (ġusġun)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuskun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2859
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوسقن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 375a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوسقون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 982
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Postilena”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1325
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوسقن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3794
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kuskun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوسقون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1487