چاوش

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

չավուշ (çavuş) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Common Turkic *čabïš, from earlier *čabïĺ(č). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰲𐰉𐰾 (čabïš, “army commander”), Karakhanid [script needed] (čavïš, “the officer in battle who marshals the ranks”).

Noun

چاوش • (çavuş, çauş)

beadle, apparitor, usher, pursuivant, messenger, herald
(military) sergeant

Descendants

Turkish: çavuş
→ Arabic: جَاوِيش (jāwīš), → Arabic: شاويش
→ Armenian: չավուշ (čʻavuš)
→ Albanian: çaush
→ Aromanian: čiaúš
→ Bulgarian: чау́ш (čaúš)
→ English: chiaus
→ French: chaoux
→ Byzantine Greek: τσαούσης (tsaoúsēs), τζαούσιος (tzaoúsios), τζάσις (tzásis)
- Greek: τσαούσης (tsaoúsis)
- → Venetan: Zassi, Çassi
→ Latin: ciausius
→ Macedonian: ча́уш (čáuš)
→ Persian: چاوش / چاووش (čâvuš)
→ Romanian: ceaúș
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ча̏ӯш

Latin script: čȁūš

References

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 1568–1569
Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 108
Zachariadou, Elizabeth (1978) “Observations on some Turcica of Pachymeres”, in Revue des études byzantines‎^[3], volume 36, page 265

Persian

Alternative forms

چاووش (čâvoš)

Etymology

Shortened of Persian (čâvoš-xwân) or (čâvošgar), probably related to Persian verb (čâvidan, “to tweet, chirp; to cry aloud”), actually should be pronounced čāveš, but in Iranian Persian suffix -eš after āv pronounced -oš, compare with (kâvoš), (tarâvoš). At least the sense “apparitor, beadle” derives from Turkic, specifically from the Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş).

Noun

چاوش • (čâvoš)

(historical) the head of a caravan who loudly sang poems in medieval Persia
(obsolete) beadle, apparitor, usher, pursuivant, messenger, herald
(dialectal, Khorasan) singing