قره‌كوز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قره (kara, “black”) +‎ گوز (göz, “eye”)

Proper noun

قره‌گوز • (Karagöz)

1. Karagöz

Descendants

• Turkish: Karagöz
• → Albanian: Karagjoz
• → Algerian Arabic: قراقوز (garāgōz)
• → Armenian: կարագյոզ (karagyoz), ղարագյոզ (ġaragyoz), խարակյոզ (xarakyoz)
• → Egyptian Arabic: أراجوز (ʔarāgōz)
• → Greek: Καραγκιόζης (Karagkiózis)
• → Iraqi Arabic: قراقوز (qarāqōz)
• → North Levantine Arabic: كراكوز (karākōz)
• → Romanian: caraghios

Further reading

• Şemseddin Sami (1896) “قره‌كوز”, in Kâmûsü'l-A'lâm (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 5, Constantinople: Mihran, page 443