جوجه

جوجه (cûca) (definite accusative جوجه‌نؽ, plural جوجه‌لار)

1. Arabic spelling of cûca (“unripe melon”)

جوجه (cûcə) (definite accusative جوجه‌نى, plural جوجه‌لَر)

1. Arabic spelling of cûcə (“chicken”)

Ultimately onomatopoeic, most likely borrowed from Persian جوجه (juje, “chick”), with the original sense surviving dialectally.^[1]

جوجه • (cüce)

1. dwarf

   جوجه قالمق ― cüce kalmak ― to stay short

• Turkish: cüce
• → Albanian: xhuxh
• → Armenian: ճիւճէ (čiwčē), ջուջա (ǰuǰa)
• → Bulgarian: джудже́ (džudžé)
• → Georgian: ჯუჯა (ǯuǯa)
• → Greek: τζουτζές (tzoutzés)
• → Macedonian: џуџе (džudže)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جوجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 449
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جوجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 687

• چوجه (čuje), چوژه (čuže), چوزه (čuze), چوچه (čuče)
• چوری (čuri) (dialectal, Isfahan, Yazd)
• جیجه (jije) (dialectal)

Probably from Sogdian [script needed] (cwzʾkk /⁠čužăk⁠/, “chick”). Compare the related Turkish civciv (“chick”), which could be imitative.^[1]

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جوجه • (juje) (plural جوجه‌ها) (dialectal, common in Iran)

1. chick (baby bird)
2. chicken
3. (Dari) cub, young

   Synonym: (Iran) بچه (bačče)

   چوچه پاندا (Dari) ― čūča pāndā ― baby panda

• → Azerbaijani: cücə
• → Khalaj: cûca, cûcə
• → Ottoman Turkish: جوجه (cüce)
  • Turkish: cüce
  • → Albanian: xhuxh
  • → Armenian: ճիւճէ (čiwčē), ջուջա (ǰuǰa)
  • → Bulgarian: джудже́ (džudžé)
  • → Georgian: ჯუჯა (ǯuǯa)
  • → Greek: τζουτζές (tzoutzés)
  • → Macedonian: џуџе (džudže)
• → Punjabi: cūcā
  • Gurmukhi script: ਚੂਚਾ
  • Shahmukhi script: چوچہ