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قورقوسز

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From قورقو (korku, fear, fright, terror) +‎ ـسز (-siz, -suz, -less).

Adjective

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قورقوسز (korkusuz)

  1. fearless, intrepid, courageous, unafraid, showing no fear, fright, or terror
    Synonyms: بی باك (bi bâk), بی پروا (bi pervâ)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: korkusuz

Further reading

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  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قورقو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 556
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قورقوسز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 373b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورقوسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 980
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intrepidus”, 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 855
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قورقوسز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3790
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورقوسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484