چاوش

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

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)

  1. beadle, apparitor, usher, pursuivant, messenger, herald
  2. (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)
    • → Venetian: 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, Vienna, columns 1568–1569
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) 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vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 108
  • Zachariadou, Elizabeth (1978) “Observations on some Turcica of Pachymeres”, in Revue des études byzantines‎, volume 36, page 265

Persian

Alternative forms
  • چاووش (čâvoš)

Etymology

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

Noun

چاوش • (čâvoš)

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