كوج

From Khorezmian Turkic كوچ (küç, “force, power, work, effort”), from Common Turkic *kǖč (“force”).

• IPA^(key): /kuːd͡ʒ/

كُوج • (kūj) m (obsolete, Ilkhanate)

1. service, power offered, corvee, what a vassal performs
   • 1283, “[Ilkhan] Aḥmad Tegüder’s Second Letter to [Sultan] Qalāʾūn”, in Judith Pfeiffer, editor, History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East. Studies in Honor of John E. Woods, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, published 2006, →ISBN, page 194:

     وَيَتَّفِقُ الْجَمِيعُ عَلَى الْقِيَامِ بِوَاجِبِ كُوجِ قَانَ وَخِدْمَتِهِ

     wa-yattafiqu l-jamīʕu ʕalā l-qiyāmi bi-wājibi kūji qāna wa-ḵidmati-hī

     And all agree upon performing work and service for the Khan.

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎ (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 625–628

From Proto-Turkic *köč-.

كُوَج (küweç/köç)

1. (Volga Bulgar) to migrate

• كُوَجڔوُي (küveçrüvi, “(he) migrated”)

• Chuvash: куҫ (kuś)

• A Volga Bulgarian Inscription From 1307 A. Róna-tas, page 155
• Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 199

From Common Turkic *kǖč.

كُوجْ (kǖč)

1. strength, power

   اَلْبْ‌لارْ اَرِغْ اَلْقِشُرْ
   کُجْ بیٖـرْ قِلِبْ اَرْقَشُرْ
   بیٖـرْ بیٖـرْ اوُزا اَلْقِشَرْ
   اَذْکَرْمَذِبْ اُقْ اَتَارْ[1]

   Alplar arïɣ alkïšur
   Küč bīr qïlïp arqašur
   Bīr bīr üze alqašur
   Eδgermeδip oq atār

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