گونش

Azerbaijani

Noun

گونش (günəş) (definite accusative گونشی (günəşi), plural گونشلر (günəşlər))

1. Arabic spelling of günəş (“sun”)

Declension

Declension of گونش

	singular	plural
nominative	گونش	گونشلر
definite accusative	گونشی	گونشلری
dative	گونشه	گونشلره
locative	گونشده	گونشلرده
ablative	گونشدن	گونشلردن
definite genitive	گونشین	گونشلرین

Ottoman Turkish

گونش

Alternative forms

• گنش (güneş)
• կիւնէշ (güneş) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *küneĺ (“sun; sunny place”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰛𐰈𐰤𐰾 (küneš), Azerbaijani günəş, Bashkir ҡояш (qoyaş), Chuvash хӗвел (hĕvel), Tatar кояш (qoyaş), Turkmen güneş, Uyghur قۇياش (quyash), Uzbek quyosh and Yakut куйаас (kuyaas).

Noun

گونش • (güneş)

1. (astronomy) sun, the star that the Earth revolves around

   Synonyms: آفتاب (afitab), شمس (şems), گون (gün), مهر (mihr)

2. sunshine, the direct rays, light or warmth of the sun

Derived terms

• گونش ساعتی (güneş saʼati, “sundial”)
• گونشلتمك (güneşletmek, “to leave a thing to be well sunned”)
• گونشلك (güneşlik, “sunny place, sunny spot”)
• گونشلنمك (güneşlenmek, “to be well exposed to the sun”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: güneş

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “güneş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1805
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “گونش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1061
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sol”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1566
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گونش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4096
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güneş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گونش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1604