قوجه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly a doublet of خواجه (hoca, “teacher, master”), from Persian خواجه (xâje, “lord, master, owner”).

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Cognate with Bashkir хужа (xuja, “master, owner”), Kazakh қожа (qoja, “host, owner”), Kyrgyz кожо (kojo, “host, owner”), Tatar хуҗа (xuca, “host, owner”), Uyghur خوجا (xoja, “host, owner”) and Uzbek xoʻja (“host, owner”).

Adjective

قوجه • (koca)

  1. (of living creatures) old, aged
  2. large, big
    Synonyms: اولو (ulu), ایری (iri), بالابان (balaban), بزرك (büzürg), بیوك (biyük)

Noun

قوجه • (koca)

  1. elder
  2. chief
    Synonym: رئیس (reʼis)
  3. husband

Derived terms

  • قوجه ایلی (koca eli, “a province of Turkey”)
  • قوجه باشی (koca başı, “chief elder of a borough”)
  • قوجه قاری (koca karı, “an old woman”)
  • قوجه یارپوزی (koca yarpuzu, “wild variety of rosemary”)
  • قوجه یمشی (koca yemişi, “arbutus berry”)
  • قوجه‌سز (kocasız, “husbandless”)
  • قوجه‌لاشمق (kocalaşmak, “to begin to grow old”)
  • قوجه‌لاق (kocalak, “black kite”)
  • قوجه‌لامق (kocalamak, “to grow old”)
  • قوجه‌لق (kocalık, “the quality of an elder”)
  • قوس قوجه (kus koca, “enormous, very large”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: koca
  • → Bulgarian: коджа́ (kodžá)

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