بوینوزلو

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بوینزلو (boynuzlu), بینوزلو (boynuzlu)

Etymology

From بوینوز (boynuz, “horn”) +‎ ـلو (-lu).

Adjective

بوینوزلو • (boynuzlu)

1. horned, provided with horns

Noun

بوینوزلو • (boynuzlu)

1. cuckold, wittol, a man married to an unfaithful wife

   Synonyms: ترس (teres), قودوش (kodoş), دیوث (deyyus), كراتا (kerata)

Descendants

• Turkish: boynuzlu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boynuzlu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 664
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوینوزلو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 296
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cornutus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 289
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوینزلو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 952
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boynuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوینوزلو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 413