کوچ

See also: كوج, كوخ, گوچ, گوج, كوچ, كُوجْ, and كۈچ

Malay

Noun

کوچ (plural کوچ-کوچ or کوچ۲, informal 1st possessive کوچکو, 2nd possessive کوچمو, 3rd possessive کوچڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of koc.

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [koːt͡ʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰoːt͡ʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰoːt͡ʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰoːt͡ʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰʊːt͡ʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰuːt͡ʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɵt͡ʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	kōč
Dari reading?	kōč
Iranian reading?	kuč
Tajik reading?	küč

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Turkic, from Proto-Turkic *köč (“nomadizing”). Compare Chagatai كوچ (köç), Azerbaijani köç, Turkish göç. Already attested as the name of a nomadic tribe in the Shāhnāma, c. 1010.

Noun

کوچ • (kuč) (plural کوچ‌ها (kuč-hâ))

1. migration (originally of nomadic tribes, now generally)

   زندگی در کوچ ― zendegi dar kuč ― nomadic life

   • c. 1260, Rumi, “Ghazal 1789”, in دیوان شمس تبریزی [Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi]‎^[1]:

     ای عاشقان ای عاشقان هنگام کوچ است از جهان
     در گوش جانم می رسد طبل رحیل از آسمان

     ay āšiqān ay āšiqān hangām-i kōč ast az jahān
     dar gōš⁠-i jān-am mē-rasad tabl-i rahīl az āsmān

     O lovers, o lovers, it is time for migration out of the world;
     From the heavens, the drum of departure reaches the ear of my soul.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. (archaic) chattel, everything that belongs to a household and can be moved
   1. (by extension) family

      Synonyms: خانه (xâne), اهل (ahl)

   2. (by extension) wife

      Synonyms: زن (zan), زوجه (zowje)

      Antonym: شوهر (šowhar)

Derived terms

• کوچ کردن (kuč kardan)
• کوچیدن (kučidan)

 

Etymology 2

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

Noun

کوچ • (kuč)

1. (obsolete) service, power offered, normally only occurs in the set phrase کوچ دادن (kuč dâdan), which is what a vassal does

References

• 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)‎^[2] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 621–628
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “کوچ”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 907–908
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “کوچ”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 767