قوچ

قوْچ (qoç) (definite accusative قوْچوُ‎, plural قوْچلار‎)

1. Arabic spelling of qoç (“ram”)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *koč (“ram”); cognate with Azerbaijani qoç, Bashkir ҡусҡар (qusqar), Kazakh қошқар (qoşqar), Kyrgyz кочкор (koçkor), Turkmen goç, Uyghur قوچقار‎ (qochqar), Uzbek qoʻchqar and Hungarian kos.

قوچ • (koç)

1. ram, an adult male of the species Ovis aries

   Synonym: كبش‎ (kebş)

2. brave and courageous man, hero

   Synonyms: شاهباز‎ (şahbaz), قهرمان‎ (kahraman), یگیت‎ (yiğit)

3. (astronomy) Aries, a constellation of the zodiac
4. (astrology) Aries, the zodiac sign for the ram

• Turkish: koç
• → Armenian: խոչ (xočʿ), կոչ (kočʿ), ղոչ (łočʿ)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “koç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2702
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• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “koç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قوچ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1483