جام گوز

Ottoman Turkish

جام گوز

Etymology

From جام (cam, “glass; glassy, vitreous”) + گوز (göz, “eye”).

Noun

جام گوز • (cam göz)

hound shark, triakid, any of several small sharks of the family Triakidae
(figuratively) skinflint, miser, one who is excessively stingy or cautious

Descendants

Turkish: camgöz

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “camgöz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 748
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جام گوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 430
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جام گوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 637

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