پوصو

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پوسو (pusu), پصو (pusu), پسو (pusu), پوصی (pusı), پوسی (pusı)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *busug (“ambush”), a development of *bus- (“to lay in ambush”), the same root of پوصمق (pusmak, “to lay in ambush”). Cognate with Karakhanid بُسُغْ (pusuɣ).

Noun

پوصو • (pusu)

1. ambush, ambuscade, an attack launched from a concealed position

   Synonym: كمین (kemin)

Derived terms

• پوصو قورمق (pusu kurmak, “to lie in wait”)
• پوصولنمق (pusulanmak, “to keep oneself in the ambush”)
• پوصویه یاتمق (pusuya yatmak, “to lie in wait”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pusu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pusu1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3910
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پوصو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 327
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Insidiæ”, 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 825
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پوصو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 929
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pusu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پوصو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 459