هوش

See also: هوس and هَوُسَ

Ottoman Turkish

هوش

Etymology 1

From Persian هوش (huš), a variant of توسکا (tuskâ, “birch”), which probably derives from a Mongolic source; compare modern Mongolian хус (xus, “birch”).

Noun

هوش • (hoş or huş)

1. birch, any of various trees in the genus Betula

   Synonym: آق آغاج (ak ağac)

Descendants

• Turkish: huş

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “huş1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2011
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هوش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1331
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “huş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2174

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian هوش (huš, “intellect”).

Noun

هوش • (huş)

1. reason, common sense, consciousness

   Synonyms: ادراك (idrak), اوص (us), شعور (şuûr), عقل (akl)

Derived terms

• هوشمند (huşmend, “reasonable”)
• هوشیار (huşyar, “reasonable”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: huş

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “huş3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2011
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هوش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1331
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intellectus”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 838
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “هوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 5514
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2174

Etymology 3

From Arabic هَوْش (hawš).

Noun

هوش • (hevş)

1. multitude, myriad, a great amount of something

Further reading

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• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Multitudo”, 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^[7], Vienna, column 1097
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “هوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 5514
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2174

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭥𐭱 (ōš), from Proto-Iranian *HušíH (“(two) ears; understanding”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Compare Northern Kurdish hiş.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ˈhoːʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hoːʃ], [huːʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hoːʃ], [huːʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔʊʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔʊːʃ], [ʔuʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [húːʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hɵ́ʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	hōš
Dari reading?	hōš, hūš
Iranian reading?	huš
Tajik reading?	hüš

Noun

هوش • (huš)

Dari	هوش
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳӯш

1. intellect
2. intelligence
3. understanding

Derived terms

• باهوش (bâ-hôš)
• بی‌هوش (bê-hôš)
• هوشی (hôši)
• بهوش (behôš)
• مدهوش (madhôš)
• هوشمند (hôšmand)
• هوشیار (hôšyâr)
• هوش مصنوعی (hôš-e masnu'i)

Etymology 2

Noun

هوش • (huš)

1. Alternative form of توسکا (tuskâ)