تپه كوز

Ottoman Turkish

تپه گوز

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دپه كوز (däpä göz). Compound of تپه (tepe, “hill; crown of the head”) + گوز (göz, “eye”).

Noun

تپه گوز • (tepe göz)

1. stargazer, any trachinoid fish in the family Uranoscopidae
2. (mythology) cyclops

Descendants

• Turkish: tepegöz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tepegöz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4739
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تپه كوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 342
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تپه كوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 492