# پزونك
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* پوزونك (püzevenk, pözevenk)
* [script needed] (bajveng)
* پژوند (pejvend)

### Etymology

From Persian پژوند (pažavand, pažvand), پژاوند (pažâvand, “pimp”), پازنک (pâzanak, “pimp”), whence also Azerbaijani pəzəvəng (“huge, churl, berk, lout”).
The oft-repeated etymology from Middle Armenian բոզաւագ (bozawag, “whoremaster”) is incorrect, as the Armenian term is a barely-attested literary invention, whereas Turkish borrowings from Armenian are usually acquired orally from Armenian dialects.
See also the colloquial variants of پاسبان (pasban, “guard”); even if the present Turkish term is borrowed from Persian, in Iran the term may be itself have been loaned from the northwest to designate a “whore-watcher” (not the best-recorded regiolects of Turkish and Persian also).

### Noun

پزونك • (pezevenk)
* procurer, whoremaster, pimp, mackerel, bawd
    Synonyms: ترس (teres), قودوش (kodoş), قواد (kavad), دلال (dellal), محبت دلالی (muhabbet dellalı), [script needed] (martoloz).

#### Derived terms

* پزونكلك (pezevenklik, “pimping, procuring, proxenetism”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: pezevenk
* → Albanian: pizaveng
* → Arabic:
** Egyptian Arabic: بَزَوَنْك (bazawank, bazawang)
** North Levantine Arabic: بَزَوَنْك (bezawenk)
** South Levantine Arabic: بَزَوَنْك (bazawank)
* → Armenian: փէօզէվէնկ (pʻēōzēvēnk), փէզէվէնկ (pʻēzēvēnk)
* → Aromanian: pizivengu, pisivengu
* → Bulgarian: пезеве́нк (pezevénk)
* → Greek: πεζεβέγκης (pezevégkis)
* → Hungarian: pezinengh
* → Ladino: pezevenk
* → Macedonian: пезевенк (pezevenk)
* → Romanian: pezevenchi, pezevenc, pezeveng, pezevenghi, pezevenche, pezevenghe, pozovenchi, pozovenchi, pozovenche, vezevenghe
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: пезѐвенк, пѐнзевенк
    Latin script: pezèvenk, pènzevenk

### References

* ↑ Dankoff, Robert (1991) An Evliya Çelebi Glossary: Unusual, Dialectal and Foreign Words in the Seyahat-name (Sources of oriental languages and literatures; 14)‎, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, page 15
* ↑ Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pejvend”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume IV, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3811a
* ↑ “gidi”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎ (in Turkish), volume III, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1967, page 1702
* ↑ پزونك on Online Ottoman Dictionary from Pamukkale University

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pezevenk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume IV, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3841b
* Dankoff, Robert (1991) An Evliya Çelebi Glossary: Unusual, Dialectal and Foreign Words in the Seyahat-name (Sources of oriental languages and literatures; 14)‎, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, page 68
* Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 29
* Eren, Hasan (1999) “pezevenk”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 332a
* Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) “pezevenk”, in Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 329
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پزونك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 812
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پوزونك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 921
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pezevenk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پزونك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 196