جام كوز
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From جام (cam, “glass; glassy, vitreous”) + گوز (göz, “eye”).
Noun
[edit]- hound shark, triakid, any of several small sharks of the family Triakidae
- (figuratively) skinflint, miser, one who is excessively stingy or cautious
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: camgöz
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “camgöz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 748
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جام كوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 430
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جام كوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 637