كوشه
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Persian گوشه (guše, “corner, angle”).
Noun
[edit]كوشه or گوشه • (köşe or göşe)
- (geometry) angle, a figure formed by two rays which start from a common point
- corner, nook, the space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point
- turn, bend, curve, any change of direction or orientation in a road, stream, etc.
- (anatomy) lobe, a clear division of an organ, especially of the brain, liver, or lung
Derived terms
[edit]- اوچ كوشه (üç köşe, “triangular”)
- ایش كوشهسی (iş köşesi, “critical point in a matter”)
- جگر كوشه (ciğer köşe, “darling”)
- درت كوشه (dört köşe, “quadrangular”)
- كوشه اوستهسی (köşe ustası, “deputy-warden of a trade-guild”)
- كوشه باشی (köşe başı, “street corner”)
- كوشه طاشی (köşe taşı, “cornerstone”)
- كوشه یر (köşe yer, “a retired spot”)
- كوشهلك (köşelik, “quality or function of a corner”)
- كوشهلو (köşeli, “provided with corners or angles”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: köşe
- → Albanian: qoshe
- → Armenian: քէօշէ (kʻēōšē)
- → Laz: ქჲოშე (kyoşe), ჩოშე (çoşe) — Atina, Vizha, Artasheni
- → Serbo-Croatian: ćòšak / ћо̀шак
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “köşe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2801
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوشه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 403a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوشه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1055
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Angulus”, 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 62
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوشه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4082
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “köşe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوشه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1596