پوجه
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- پوجا (poca)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian poggia, inflection of the verb poggiare (“to lean, stand, rest”).
Noun
پوجه • (poca)
Descendants
- Turkish: boca
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “boca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 639
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پوجا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 325b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “boca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پوجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 456