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خروس (horus)

  1. Alternative form of خوراز (horaz)

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خُروس (xurôs or xurûos) (definite accusative خُروسوُ, plural خُروسلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of xurôs, xurûos (cock, rooster)

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خروس (xrus)

  1. rooster, cock

Ottoman Turkish edit

 
خروس

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Persian خروس (xorus, rooster, cock).

Noun edit

خروس (horos)

  1. rooster, cock, an adult male of the species Gallus gallus
    Synonym: دیك (dik)
  2. (zoology) leader of a flock of birds during migrations

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  • Turkish: horoz
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: хо̏ро̄з
    Latin script: hȍrōz

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Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (hlws /⁠xrōs⁠/, cock, literally the caller), from [script needed] (hlwstn' /⁠xrōstan⁠/, to call, to cry).

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Readings
Classical reading? xurōs
Dari reading? xurōs
Iranian reading? xorus
Tajik reading? xurüs

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Dari خروس
Iranian Persian
Tajik хурӯс

خروس (xorus, xorôs)

  1. rooster, cock

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References edit

  • 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

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Classical Persian خروس (xurōs).

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خروس (xurūsm

  1. rooster, cock