قوچاق

Khalaj

Adjective

قوْچاق (qoçâq)

1. Arabic spelling of qoçâq (“brave”)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kočaq (“hero, brave man”); equivalent to قوچ (koç, “ram; brave man”) +‎ ـاق (-ak, noun and adjective diminutive suffix). Cognate with Azerbaijani qoçaq, Karakalpak қошшақ, Kumyk къоччакъ (qoççaq) and Turkmen goçak.

Adjective

قوچاق • (koçak)

1. valiant, brave, courageous, heroic, bold, daring, doughty

Noun

قوچاق • (koçak)

1. hero, somebody who possesses great bravery and courage

   Synonyms: آلپ (alp), پهلوان (pehlivân), قهرمان (kahraman), یكیت (yığıt)

Descendants

• Turkish: koçak
• → Armenian: խոչախ (xočʻax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koçak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2702
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوچاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 372a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوچاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 977
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Strenuus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1602
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوچاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3783
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “koçak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوچاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1481