قوجه یمشی

Ottoman Turkish

قوجه یمشی

Alternative forms

• قوجه یمش (koca yemiş)

Etymology

From قوجه (koca, “elder; chief; husband”) + یمش (yemiş, “fruit”).

Noun

قوجه یمشی • (koca yemişi)

1. arbutus berry, the edible fruit of the strawberry tree

Derived terms

• قوجه یمشی آغاجی (koca yemişi ağacı, “strawberry tree”)

Descendants

• Turkish: koca yemiş
• → Armenian: խօճայ եէմիշի (xōčay eēmiši)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koca yemiş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2701
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوجه یمشی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 372a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوجه یمشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 977
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Arbutum”, 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 78
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوجه یمشی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3784
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوجه یمشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1481