قوپوز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قوپز (kopuz), قپوز (kopuz)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kopuŕ.

Noun

قوپوز • (kopuz)

1. a kind of lute with a globular body

Descendants

• Turkish: kopuz
• → Romanian: cobuz

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قپوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3622
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوپوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3379
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قپوز”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 691