اوكوز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *öküŕ (“ox”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕 (öküz, “ox”), Azerbaijani öküz (“ox”), Kazakh өгіз (ögız, “ox”), Turkmen öküz (“ox”), Chuvash вӑкӑр (văk̬ăr, “bull”) and Hungarian ökör (“ox”), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

اوكوز • (öküz)

ox, an adult castrated bovine
Synonym: صیغیر (sığır)
dull, slow-witted, stupid man
pure, good-hearted, kind man

Derived terms

اوكوزلك (öküzlük, “slow-wittedness, stupidity”)

Descendants

Turkish: öküz

Further reading

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “öküz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوكوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 264

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