هوش

From Persian هوش (huš), a variant of توسکا (tuskâ, “birch”), which probably derives from a Mongolic source; compare modern Mongolian хус (xus, “birch”).

هوش • (hoş or huş)

1. birch, any of various trees in the genus Betula

   Synonym: آق آغاج (ak ağac)

• Turkish: huş

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “huş1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2011
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هوش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1331
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “huş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2174

Borrowed from Persian هوش (huš, “intellect”).

هوش • (huş)

1. reason, common sense, consciousness

   Synonyms: ادراك (idrak), اوص (us), شعور (şuûr), عقل (akl)

• Turkish: huş

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “huş3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2011
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هوش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1331
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intellectus”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 838
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “هوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 5514
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2174

From Arabic هَوْش (hawš).

هوش • (hevş)

1. multitude, myriad, a great amount of something

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Multitudo”, 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^[7], Vienna, column 1097
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “هوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 5514
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2174

From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭥𐭱 (ōš), from Proto-Iranian *HušíH (“(two) ears; understanding”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Compare Northern Kurdish hiş.

هوش • (huš)

1. intellect
2. intelligence
3. understanding

هوش • (huš)

1. alternative form of توسکا (tuskâ)