chauz
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
a. 1567, possibly from Portuguese chaus.[1] Ultimately from Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş, “messenger, herald, lictor, sergeant”). Cognate Turkish çavuş.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈt͡ʃauθ/ [ˈt͡ʃau̯θ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈt͡ʃaus/ [ˈt͡ʃau̯s]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -auθ
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -aus
- Syllabification: chauz
Noun edit
chauz m (plural chauces)
- (historical) chiaus
- 1567, Francisco Balbi di Correggio, La verdadera relacion de todo lo q[ue] este año de MDLXV ha sucedido en la Isla de Malta […] , Alcalá de Henares: Juan de Villanueva, →OCLC, page 51:
- […] y lo ſacaron alas caſas dela Burmola, adonde le dexaron yr para ſu chauz: pero Dios ſabe con que turbacion, por el miedo paſſado.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chauz.
References edit
- ^ “chauz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading edit
- “chauz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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