قوجه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Possibly a doublet of خواجه (hoca, “teacher, master”), from Persian خواجه (xâje, “lord, master, owner”). Cognate with Bashkir хужа (xuja, “master, owner”), Kazakh қожа (qoja, “host, owner”), Kyrgyz кожо (kojo, “host, owner”), Tatar хуҗа (xuca, “host, owner”), Uyghur خوجا (xoja, “host, owner”) and Uzbek xoʻja (“host, owner”).

Adjective

قوجه • (koca)

  1. old, aged, having existed for a relatively long period of time
    Synonym: اسكی (eski)
  2. large, big, of considerable or relatively great size or extent
    Synonyms: اولو (ulu), ایری (iri), بیوك (büyük)

Noun

قوجه • (koca)

  1. elder, an elderly or old man
  2. chief, a leader or head of a group of people
  3. husband, a man in a marriage or marital relationship

Derived terms
  • قوجه ایلی (koca eli, “a province of Turkey”)
  • قوجه باشی (koca başı, “chief elder of a borough”)
  • قوجه قاری (koca karı, “an old woman”)
  • قوجه یارپوزی (koca yarpuzu, “wild variety of rosemary”)
  • قوجه یمشی (koca yemişi, “arbutus berry”)
  • قوجه‌سز (kocasız, “husbandless”)
  • قوجه‌لاشمق (kocalaşmak, “to begin to grow old”)
  • قوجه‌لاق (kocalak, “black kite”)
  • قوجه‌لامق (kocalamak, “to grow old”)
  • قوجه‌لق (kocalık, “the quality of an elder”)
  • قوس قوجه (kus koca, “enormous, very large”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: koca

Further reading
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