koza

Inherited from Old Czech koza, from Proto-Slavic *koza.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoza]

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koza f

1. goat
2. (colloquial) tit (woman's breast)

   Synonym: prs

3. sawhorse
4. (slang, cycle racing) time trial bicycle

• “koza”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “koza”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “koza”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

• cosa (obsolete), cośa (Haketía), cozza (Haketía)

Inherited from Old Spanish cosa (“thing”), from Latin causam (“thing”). Compare Spanish cosa (“thing”).

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koza f (Hebrew spelling קוזה)^[1]

1. thing [16th c.]
   • 2003, Sefárdica‎^[1], numbers 14–16, Centro de Investigación y Difusión de la Cultura Sefaradí, page 70:

     La primera koza dunke ke se nota en la kuzina djudeo‐espanyola es la manera turka de azer kada día el arroz, ke se kome en grandes kantidades i no manka ni un día en la meza del djudío proveniente del Impero Otomano.

     The first thing noted in the Judaeo‐Spanish kitchen is the Turkish style of making rice daily, which is eaten in great quantities and is never absent for one day from the table of the Jew originating from the Ottoman Empire.

koza f

1. goat

Borrowed from Russian коза (koza).

koza

1. goat

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *koza.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈkoza/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈkoza/

koza f

1. goat

• Czech: koza

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “koza”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *koza.

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• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Syllabification: ko‧za
• Homophone: Koza

koza f (diminutive kózka)

1. goat
2. (colloquial, humorous) booger, bogey (piece of solid or semisolid mucus in the nostril)

   Synonyms: babol, gil, glut, smark, śpik

3. (slang) jail, prison
4. (colloquial) space heater (small, freestanding, metal furnace used to heat up a room)
5. any spined loach (Cobitis, especially Cobitis taenia or golden loach)

   Synonym: kózka

6. bagpipes

   Synonyms: dudy, kobza

7. (Near Masovian, windmill construction) tall, strong pine tree with a block on top and rungs for climbing
8. (Kuyavia) piece of land of an irregular shape covered with grain
9. (obsolete) knife used for skinning slaughtered goats and other animals

• → Low Prussian: Koss
• → Plautdietsch: Koss

• koza in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• koza in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• koza in PWN's encyclopedia
• Władysław Matlakowski (1891), “koza”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności‎^[2], volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 364
• Władysław Matlakowski (1892), “koza”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 9

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *koza.

• IPA^(key): /kǒza/
• Hyphenation: ko‧za

kòza f (Cyrillic spelling ко̀за, relational adjective kȍzjī, diminutive kòzica, augmentative kozètina)

1. goat

• “koza”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *koza.

• IPA^(key): /kɔza/, [ˈkɔza]
• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Hyphenation: ko‧za

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koza f (male equivalent cap, relational adjective kozí or kozací or kozový (“vaulting buck”), diminutive kozička, augmentative kozisko)

1. female goat
2. (derogatory) bimbo, airhead (stupid woman)
3. vaulting buck
4. (colloquial) tit, boob

• “koza”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *koza. First attested in the 16th century.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̀ːza/

kóza f

1. goat

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	kôza
gen. sing.	kôze
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	kôza	kôzi	kôze
genitive (rodȋlnik)	kôze	kôz	kôz
dative (dajȃlnik)	kôzi	kôzama	kôzam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	kôzo	kôzi	kôze
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	kôzi	kôzah	kôzah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	kôzo	kôzama	kôzami

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem, long mixed accent
nom. sing.	kôza
gen. sing.	kozé
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	kôza	kozé	kozé
genitive (rodȋlnik)	kozé	kozá	kozá
dative (dajȃlnik)	kôzi	kozáma	kozàm
accusative (tožȋlnik)	kozó	kozé	kozé
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	kôzi	kozàh	kozàh
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	kozó	kozáma	kozámi

• “koza”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “koza”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوزه (koza), from Classical Persian غُوزَه (ġūza).

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.za/, [ˈkɔzɑ]
• Hyphenation: ko‧za

koza (definite accusative kozayı, plural kozalar)

1. cocoon
2. pod

   Synonym: kozalak

3. boll

• “koza”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “koza”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “koza”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kozà.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔza/
• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Hyphenation: ko‧za
• Syllabification: ko‧za

koza f

1. goat

• “koza”, in Mudra corpus [Upper Sorbian–Czech dictionary] (in Czech), 2024–2026
• “koza” in Soblex

Borrowed from Russian коза́ (kozá).

koza

1. goat

Inflection of koza (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing.	koza
genitive sing.	kozan
partitive sing.	kozad
partitive plur.	kozid
	singular	plural
nominative	koza	kozad
accusative	kozan	kozad
genitive	kozan	koziden
partitive	kozad	kozid
essive-instructive	kozan	kozin
translative	kozaks	kozikš
inessive	kozas	koziš
elative	kozaspäi	kozišpäi
illative	kozaha kozha	kozihe
adessive	kozal	kozil
ablative	kozalpäi	kozilpäi
allative	kozale	kozile
abessive	kozata	kozita
comitative	kozanke	kozidenke
prolative	kozadme	kozidme
approximative I	kozanno	kozidenno
approximative II	kozannoks	kozidennoks
egressive	kozannopäi	kozidennopäi
terminative I	kozahasai kozhasai	kozihesai
terminative II	kozalesai	kozilesai
terminative III	kozassai	—
additive I	kozahapäi kozhapäi	kozihepäi
additive II	kozalepäi	kozilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “коза”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

koza

1. cat