كونش

See also: گونش

Ottoman Turkish

گونش

Alternative forms

• گنش (güneş)
• կիւնէշ (güneş) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *küneĺ (“sun; sunny place”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰛𐰈𐰤𐰾 (küneš), Azerbaijani günəş, Bashkir ҡояш (qoyaş), Chuvash хӗвел (hĕvel), Tatar кояш (qoyaş), Turkmen güneş, Uyghur قۇياش (quyash), Uzbek quyosh and Yakut куйаас (kuyaas).

Noun

گونش • (güneş)

1. (astronomy) sun, the star that the Earth revolves around

   Synonyms: آفتاب (afitab), شمس (şems), گون (gün), مهر (mihr)

2. sunshine, the direct rays, light or warmth of the sun

Derived terms

• گونش ساعتی (güneş saʼati, “sundial”)
• گونشلتمك (güneşletmek, “to leave a thing to be well sunned”)
• گونشلك (güneşlik, “sunny place, sunny spot”)
• گونشلنمك (güneşlenmek, “to be well exposed to the sun”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: güneş

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “güneş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1805
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كونش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1061
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sol”, 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 1566
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كونش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4096
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güneş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كونش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1604