قورقوسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قورقو (korku, “fear, fright, terror”) +‎ ـسز (-siz, -suz, “-less”).

Adjective

قورقوسز • (korkusuz)

  1. fearless, intrepid, courageous, unafraid, showing no fear, fright, or terror
    Synonyms: بی باك (bi bâk), بی پروا (bi pervâ)

Derived terms

  • قورقوسزلق (korkusuzluk, “intrepidity”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: korkusuz

Further reading

  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قورقو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 556
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قورقوسز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 373b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قورقوسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 980
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intrepidus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎[3], Vienna, column 855
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قورقوسز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[4], Vienna, column 3790
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورقوسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1484
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