كوسم

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

كوسمن (kösemen)

Etymology

Not known from before the Ottoman Turkish period. قوچ (koç, “ram”) and Middle Armenian քօշ (kʻōš, “he-goat”) both look similar, however it matches Kyrgyz көсөм (kösöm, “bellwether”), Nogai көсем (“leader”), Kazakh көсем (kösem, “leader”), derived from a verbal stem “to step out” from one of contranymous significations of “to stretch out the legs”, found in dialectal Turkish as kösmek (“to stretch out the legs, lying down for rest”), while in Chagatai كوسماك (kösmek, “to be irate”).

Noun

كوسم • (kösem)

ram or he-goat that leads the flock
(figurative) daredevil

Descendants

Turkish: kösem
→ Greek: γκεσέμι (gkesémi), κεσέμι (kesémi)

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوسم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1054
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوسمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1054
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kösemen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 679
Tatarincev, B. I. (2004) “көзүл-”, in Monguš D. A., editor, Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tuvinskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Tuvan Language] (in Russian), volume III, Novosibirsk: Nauka, page 237