جام كوز

Ottoman Turkish

جام گوز

Etymology

From جام (cam, “glass; glassy, vitreous”) + گوز (göz, “eye”).

Noun

جام گوز • (cam göz)

1. hound shark, triakid, any of several small sharks of the family Triakidae
2. (figuratively) skinflint, miser, one who is excessively stingy or cautious

Descendants

• Turkish: camgöz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “camgöz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 748
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جام كوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 430
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جام كوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 637