كوكل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic 𐰚𐰇𐰭𐰠 (köŋül), from Proto-Turkic *göjŋ-il (“heart, mood”); cognate with Azerbaijani könül, Bashkir күңел (küñel), Dolgan көӈүл, Kazakh көңіл (köñıl), Tatar күңел (küñel), Uyghur كۆڭۈل (kö'ngül) and Yakut көҥүл (köñül).

Noun

گوڭل • (göñül)

1. (poetic) heart, a muscular organ that pumps blood through the body

   Synonyms: قلب (kalb), یورك (yürek)

2. heart, as the source of emotions such as love, thinking or desire

   Synonym: یورك (yürek)

3. pride, self-respect, dignity, the knowledge of one's worth

Derived terms

• گوڭلداش (gönüldaş, “one who shares the same emotions”)
• گوڭلسز (gönülsüz, “unwillingness; indisposition”)
• گوڭللو (gönüllü, “possessed of disposition”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gönül

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gönül”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1750
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوكل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1057
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cor”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 285
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوكل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4087
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gönül”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوكل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1598