قودوش

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Armenian կոտոշ (kotoš, “horn”), having in Western dialects the forms կոդոշ (kodoš), գոդոշ (godoš), from the idea of a wittol being horned.

Noun

قودوش • (kodoş) (slang)

  1. cuckold, wittol, mari complaisant
    Synonyms: ترس (teres), بوینوزلو (boynuzlu), دیوث (deyyus), كراتا (kerata)
  2. pimp, pander, souteneur
    Synonyms: ترس (teres), پزونك (pezevenk)
  3. ruffian, wild mendicant dervish, popinjay; someone lazy and naughty

Derived terms
  • قودوشلق (kodoşluk, “pimping, pandering”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: kodoş, godoş
  • → Albanian: kodosh
  • → Aromanian: cudósh
  • → Bulgarian: кодо́ш (kodóš)
  • → Macedonian: кодош (kodoš)
  • → Romanian: codóș
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (Kumanovo)
    Cyrillic script: кодо́ш
    Latin script: kodóš

References
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 84–85
  • Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 271
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قودوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3786
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “CUDÓŠ sb. m.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, pages 102–103
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