چاوش

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• չավուշ (çavuş) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Common Turkic *čabïš, from earlier *čabïĺ(č). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰲𐰉𐰾 (čabïš, “army commander”), Karakhanid [script needed] (čavïš, “the officer in battle who marshals the ranks”).

Noun

چاوش • (çavuş, çauş)

1. beadle, apparitor, usher, pursuivant, messenger, herald
2. (military) sergeant

Descendants

• Turkish: çavuş
• → Arabic: جَاوِيش (jāwīš), → Arabic: شاويش
• → Armenian: չավուշ (čʻavuš)
• → Albanian: çaush
• → Aromanian: čiaúš
• → Bulgarian: чау́ш (čaúš)
• → English: chiaus
• → French: chaoux
• → Byzantine Greek: τσαούσης (tsaoúsēs), τζαούσιος (tzaoúsios), τζάσις (tzásis)
  • Greek: τσαούσης (tsaoúsis)
  • → Venetian: Zassi, Çassi
• → Latin: ciausius
• → Macedonian: ча́уш (čáuš)
• → Persian: چاوش / چاووش (čâvuš)
• → Romanian: ceaúș
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ча̏ӯш

  Latin script: čȁūš

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاوش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 1568–1569
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 108
• Zachariadou, Elizabeth (1978) “Observations on some Turcica of Pachymeres”, in Revue des études byzantines‎^[3], volume 36, page 265

Persian

Alternative forms

• چاووش (čâvoš)

Etymology

Shortened of Persian چاوش خوان (čâvoš-xwân) or چاوشگر (čâvošgar), probably related to Persian verb چاویدن (čâvidan, “to tweet, chirp; to cry aloud”), actually should be pronounced čāveš, but in Iranian Persian suffix -eš after āv pronounced -oš, compare with کاوش (kâvoš), تراوش (tarâvoš). At least the sense “apparitor, beadle” derives from Turkic, specifically from the Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş).

Noun

چاوش • (čâvoš)

1. (historical) the head of a caravan who loudly sang poems in medieval Persia
2. (obsolete) beadle, apparitor, usher, pursuivant, messenger, herald
3. (dialectal, Khorasan) singing