كوكس

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish ككز (göğüz), Proto-Turkic *köküŕ (“breast”); cognate with Azerbaijani köks, Dolgan [script needed] (köksü), Turkmen göwüs, Uyghur [script needed] (köküs), Uzbek koʻksi and Yakut: көҕүс (köğüs).

Noun

گوكس or گوگس • (göks or göğüs)

1. chest, breast, the front part of the torso

   Synonyms: باغر (bağır), بر (ber), سینه (sine), صدر (sadr)

2. (nautical) bow of a ship at the water's edge

Derived terms

• گوگسلك (göğüslük, “piece of armour or clothing covering the breast”)
• گوگسلمك (göğüslemek, “to push with the breast”)
• گوگسلو (göğüslü, “large-chested”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: göğüs
• → Albanian: gjoks
• → Armenian: կէօյիւս (kēōyiws), գյոքս (gyokʻs), գուքս (gukʻs), գեքս (gekʻs)
• → Bulgarian: гю́юс (gjújus), гю́йс (gjújs)
• → Laz: გჲონქსი (gyonksi), ჯონგსი (congsi) — Atina
• → Serbo-Croatian: đȕks / ђу̏кс

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “göğüs”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1739
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوكس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1057
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pectus”, 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 1258
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوكس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4086
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “göğüs”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوكس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1600