كوكه

Ottoman Turkish

گوگه

Alternative forms

• گووه (güve), گوه (güve)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *küńe (“moth”); cognate with Azerbaijani güvə, Bashkir көйә (köyə), Chuvash кӗве (kĕve), Kazakh күйе (küie), Southern Altai кӱйе (küye), Turkmen güýe, Uzbek kuya and Yakut көйүүр (köyüür).

Noun

گوگه • (güğe, güve)

1. moth, especially the clothes moth which feeds on textiles

   Synonyms: پروانه (pervane), فراشه (feraşe) (moth)

Derived terms

• گوگه ینگی (güve yeniği, “moth-eaten spot in a cloth”)

Descendants

• Turkish: güve
• → Armenian: կիւվէ (kiwvē) — Constantinople

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “güve1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1813
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 405b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1058
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tinea”, 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 1675
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4097
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوكه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1599