zangoç
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Armenian ժամկոչ (žamkočʻ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]zangoç (definite accusative zangocu, plural zangoçlar)
- sexton (church official who looks after a church and act as a bell-ringer)
- Küçük kilisede zangoç olarak çalışıyordu
- He was working as a sexton in a/the small church
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “ժամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 224a
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 188, page 52
- Parlatır, İsmail et al. (1998) “zangoç”, in Türkçe Sözlük, 9th edition, volume II, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 2498a