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خروس
خروس
Persian
Alternative forms
- خرس (xros) (Sistani)
Etymology
From Middle Persian hlws (xrōs, “cock”, literally “the caller”), from hlwstn' (xrōstan, “to call, to cry”).
Noun
Dari | خروس |
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Iranian Persian | خروس |
Tajik | хурус (xurus) |
خروس • (xorus, xurōs)
Related terms
- خروشیدن (xurošīdan)
Descendants
- Tajik: хурӯс (xurüs)
- → Azeri: xoruz
- → Crimean Tatar: qoraz, horaz
- → Gagauz: хороз
- → Karaim: хороз
- → Karachay-Balkar: къораз, хораз
- → Kazakh: қораз (qoraz)
- → Kipchak:
- Armeno-Kipchak: [Armenian needed] (xoroz), [Armenian needed] (xoruz), [Armenian needed] (xorsuġ)
- Cuman: ghorox
- Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (ḫoroz)
- → Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: [script needed] (xoroz)
- → Kyrgyz: короз (koroz)
- → Ottoman Turkish: خروس (ḫoroz), خوروس (ḫoroz)
- → Turkmen: horaz
- → Urdu: خروس (xurūs)
- → Urum: хороз
- → Uyghur: خوراز (xoraz)
- → Uzbek: xo'roz
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “xrōs”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 94
- Nyberg, H. S. (1974), “xrōs”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 219b
- Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 93a