بوینوز

Ottoman Turkish

بوینز

Alternative forms

• بوینز (boynuz), بینوز (boynuz)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *büńüŕ (“horn”); cognate with Azerbaijani buynuz, Bashkir мөгөҙ (mögöź), Kazakh мүйіз (müiız), Kyrgyz мүйүз (müyüz), Tatar мөгез (mögez), Uyghur مۈڭگۈز (münggüz) and Uzbek muguz.

Noun

بوینوز • (boynuz)

1. horn, a hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals

   Synonyms: سرو (soru), قرن (karn)

2. horn, a hard substance, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects
3. horn, any of several wind instruments with one narrow end into which the musician blows

   Synonym: صور (sur)

4. shoehorn, a smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel

Derived terms

• آوجی بوینوزی (avcı boynuzu, “hunting horn”)
• بوینوز آغاجی (boynuz ağacı, “Judas tree”)
• بوینوز اوتی (boynuz otu, “hellebore”)
• بوینوز اورمق (boynuz urmak, “to gore with a horn”)
• بوینوز چكمك (boynuz çekmek, “to cup”)
• بوینوز چیچكی (boynuz çiçeği, “the flower of the Judas tree”)
• بوینوزسز (boynuzsuz, “unhorned”)
• بوینوزلنمق (boynuzlanmak, “to acquire horns”)
• بوینوزلو (boynuzlu, “horned; cuckold”)
• قوچ بوینوزی (koç boynuzu, “melilot”)
• كچی بوینوزی (keçi boynuzu, “carob”)
• گیك بوینوزی (geyik boynuzu, “hartshorn”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: boynuz
• → Crimean Tatar: boynuz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boynuz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 663
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوینز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 136b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوینوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 296
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cornu”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 289
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوینز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 951-952
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boynuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوینوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 413