تپه كوز
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دپه كوز (däpä göz). Compound of تپه (tepe, “hill; crown of the head”) + گوز (göz, “eye”).
Noun
- stargazer, any trachinoid fish in the family Uranoscopidae
- (mythology) cyclops
Descendants
- Turkish: tepegöz
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tepegöz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4739
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تپه كوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 342
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تپه كوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 492