چاوش

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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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

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چاوش (çavuş, çauş)

  1. beadle, apparitor, usher, pursuivant, messenger, herald
  2. (military) sergeant

Descendants

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References

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  • 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vo aromanskiot]‎[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 108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

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Etymology

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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

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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