chauz

a. 1567, possibly from Portuguese chaus.^[1] Ultimately from Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş, “messenger, herald, lictor, sergeant”). Cognate Turkish çavuş.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃauθ/ [ˈt͡ʃau̯θ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaus/ [ˈt͡ʃau̯s] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -auθ (Spain)
• Rhymes: -aus (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: chauz

chauz m (plural chauces)

1. (historical) chiaus
   • 1567, Francisco Balbi di Correggio, La verdadera relacion de todo lo q[ue] este año de MDLXV ha sucedido en la Isla de Malta […] , Alcalá de Henares: Juan de Villanueva, →OCLC, page 51:

     […] y lo ſacaron alas caſas dela Burmola, adonde le dexaron yr para ſu chauz: pero Dios ſabe con que turbacion, por el miedo paſſado.

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   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chauz.

• “chauz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024