قوقوروز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • قوقوروس (kukurus), قوقروز (kukuruz), قوقروس (kukurus)
  • գօգօրօզ (kokoroz) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

While the standard Ottoman word for maize, مصر (mısır), dates from the mid seventeenth century,[1] قوقوروز (kukuruz), a non-standard word, was probably borrowed later from a Balkan language such as Romanian cucuruz[2] or Serbian kukuruz.[3] The first attestation in Ottoman Turkish is in a report from Prince Alexander Mourouzis of Wallachia to Sultan Selim III in 1794.[4]. In any case it is of Balkan, not Turkic origin.[5]

Noun

قوقوروز • (kukuruz)

  1. maize
    Synonyms: مصر بوغدایی (mısr buğdayı), مصر داریسی (mısr darısı)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kokoroz (dialectal)
  • →⇒ Armenian: քուքուռիկ (kʻukʻuṙik) — Çemişgezek

References

  1. ^ Arif Bilgin, “From Artichoke to Corn: New Fruits and Vegetables in the Istanbul Market (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries),” in Living the Good Life, edited by E. Akçetin, S. Faroqhi. Leiden: Brill, 2018, p. 280. Google Books
  2. ^ Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912), “قوقوروز”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 273
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002), Sözlerin Soyağacı: Türkçe Etimolojik Sözlük‎[1]
  4. ^ Alex Drace-Francis, The Making of Mămăligă. Budapest – Vienna – New York: Central European University Press, 2022, p. 60-61.
  5. ^ Kamil Stachowski, Names of Cereals in the Turkic Languages. Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka [Studia Turcologica Cracoviensa, 11], p. 24 [2]
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