قوجه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• գօճա (koca) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Possibly a doublet of خواجه (hoca, “teacher, master”), from Persian خواجه (xâje, “lord, master, owner”). 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. old, aged, having existed for a relatively long period of time

   Synonym: اسكی (eski)

2. large, big, of considerable or relatively great size or extent

   Synonyms: اولو (ulu), ایری (iri), بالابان (balaban), بیوك (büyük)

Noun

قوجه • (koca)

1. elder, an elderly or old man
2. chief, a leader or head of a group of people

   Synonym: رئیس (reʼis)

3. husband, a man in a marriage or marital relationship

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)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2700
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوجه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 372a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 977
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vetus”, 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 1749
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3784
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “koca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1481