خروس

Chagatai

Noun

خروس (horus)

1. Alternative form of خوراز (horaz)

Khalaj

Noun

خُروس (xurôs or xurûos) (definite accusative خُروسوُ, plural خُروسلار)

1. Arabic spelling of xurôs, xurûos (“cock, rooster”)

Declension

Declension of خروس

	singular	plural
nominative	خروس	خروسلار
genitive	خروسؽݧ	خروسلارؽݧ
dative	خروسقا	خروسلارقا
definite accusative	خروسؽ	خروسلارؽ
locative	خروسچا	خروسلارچا
ablative	خروسدا	خروسلاردا
instrumental	خروسلا	خروسلارلا
equative	خروسوارا	خروسلاروارا

Laki

Noun

خروس (xrus)

1. rooster, cock

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian خروس (xorus, “rooster, cock”).

Noun

خُرُوسْ (ḫorūz)

1. (zoology) rooster, cock

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: xoruz
• Gagauz: horoz
• Ottoman Turkish: خروس (horoz), خوروس (horos)
  • Turkish: horoz
  • → Armenian: խորոզ (xoroz)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хо̏ро̄з

    Latin script: hȍrōz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “horoz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1971

Ottoman Turkish

خروس

Alternative forms

• خوروس (horos)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish خُرُوسْ (ḫorūz) , from Persian خروس (xorus, “rooster, cock”), ultimately from Middle Persian [script needed] (hlws /⁠xrōs⁠/, “cock”).

Noun

خروس • (horos) (definite accusative خروسی (horosu), plural خروسلر (horoslar))

1. rooster, cock, roostcock, chanticleer, an adult male of the species Gallus gallus

   Synonym: دیك (dik)

2. cock, hammer, a moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun

   Synonym: خروس آیاغی (horos ayağı)

3. (zoology) cock, any male bird, especially the leader in a flock of birds when migrating

Coordinate terms

• جیوجیو (civciv, “chick”)
• طاوق (tavuk, “hen”)
• پلیچ (piliç, “pullet”)

 

Derived terms

• امنیت خروسی (emniyet horosu, “safety hammer”)
• تفنك خروسی (tüfenk horosu, “hammer of a rifle”)
• خروس آیاغی (horos ayağı, “cock of a firearm”)
• خروس اوتمك (horos ötmek, “for a rooster, to crow”)
• خروس ایبكی (horos ibiği, “cock's comb”)
• خروس ایشی (horos işi, “camlet”)
• خروس طاشی (horos taşı, “small stone in a rooster's stomach”)
• خروس عقللو (horos ʼakıllı, “vain, presumptuous”)
• خروس یومورطه‌سی (horos yumurtası, “pullet's egg”)
• خروسباز (horosbaz, “cock fighter”)
• خروسجق (horoscuk, “cockerel”)
• خروسك (horosek, “cockerel”)
• خروسلانمق (horoslanmak, “to strut, give one's self airs”)
• خروسچه (horesçe, “cockerel”)
• خروسی چوق مجلس (horos çok meclis, “bedlam”)
• طاشلو خروس (taşlı horos, “flint hammer”)
• فتیللی خروس (fitilli horos, “fuse hammer”)
• یابان خروسی (yaban horosu, “wild rooster”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: horoz
• → Armenian: խորոզ (xoroz)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: хо̏ро̄з

  Latin script: hȍrōz

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “خروس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 698
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “horoz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1985
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “خروس”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 208b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خروس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 538
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gallus”, 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 639
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خروس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1888
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “horoz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خروس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 843

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (hlws /⁠xrōs⁠/, “cock”, literally “the caller”), from [script needed] (hlwstn' /⁠xrōstan⁠/, “to call, to cry”).

Pronunciation

• (Sistani) IPA^(key): /xɾos/

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xu.ɾoːs]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊ.ɾoːs]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊ.ɾoːs]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xʊ.ɾoːs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xu.ɾʊːs]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xo.ɹuːs]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χu.ɾɵs]

Readings
Classical reading?	xurōs
Dari reading?	xurōs
Iranian reading?	xorus
Tajik reading?	xurüs

Noun

Dari	خروس
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хурӯс

خروس • (xorus, xorôs)

1. rooster, cock

Derived terms

• خروس‌قندی (xorus-qandi)

Related terms

• خروشیدن (xorošidan)

Descendants

• → Chagatai: خوراز (ḫoraz), خروس (horus)
  • Uyghur: خوراز (xoraz), غوراز (ghoraz)
  • Uzbek: xoʻroz
• → Gujarati: ખુરૂસ (khurūs)
• → Khalaj: xurôs
• → Kipchak:
  • → Kipchak–Cuman:
    • Armeno-Kipchak: խորոզ (χoroz), խորուզ (χoruz), խորսուղ (χorsuγ)
    • Crimean Tatar: qoraz, horaz
    • Cuman: ghorox
    • Karachay-Balkar: къораз (qoraz), хораз (xoraz)
    • Karaim: хороз
    • Krymchak: хороз
    • Kumyk: хораз (xoraz)
    • Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (ḫoroz)
  • → Kipchak–Nogai:
    • Kazakh: қораз (qoraz)
    • Nogai: кораз (koraz)
  • → Kyrgyz–Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: короз (koroz)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: خُرُوسْ (ḫorūz)
  • Azerbaijani: xoruz
  • Gagauz: horoz
  • Ottoman Turkish: خروس (horoz), خوروس (horos)
    • Turkish: horoz
    • → Armenian: խորոզ (xoroz)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: хо̏ро̄з

      Latin script: hȍrōz

• → Turkmen: horaz
• → Urdu: خروس (xurūs)
• → Urum: хороз

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xrōs”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 94
• Nyberg, H. S. (1974) “xrōs”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 219b
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 93a

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خروس (xurōs).

Noun

خروس • (xurūs) m

1. rooster, cock