خوراز

Chagatai

Alternative forms

• خروس (horus)

Etymology

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

Noun

خوراز (horaz)

1. rooster, cock

Coordinate terms

• مکیان (makiyan, “hen”)

 

Descendants

• Uyghur: خوراز (xoraz), غوراز (ghoraz)
• Uzbek: xoʻroz

Further reading

• Schluessel, Eric (2018) “خوراز”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎^[1], Michigan Publishing, page 45
• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “خوراز”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[2] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 312
• Jarring, Gunnar (1964) “خوراز”, in An Eastern Turki-English Dialect Dictionary‎^[3], C.W.K. Gleerup, page 132

Uyghur

Alternative forms

• غوراز (ghoraz)

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai خوراز (ḫoraz), from Persian خروس (xorus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χorɑz/

Noun

خوراز • (xoraz) (plural خورازلار (xorazlar))

1. rooster, cock

Further reading

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN