# خروس
## Chagatai
### Noun

خروس (horus)
* Alternative form of خوراز (horaz)

## Khalaj
### Noun

خُروس (xurôs or xurûos) (definite accusative خُروسوُ, plural خُروسلار)
* Arabic spelling of xurôs, xurûos (“cock, rooster”)

#### Declension
## Laki
### Noun

خروس (xrus)
* rooster, cock

## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خروس (xorôs, “rooster, cock”).

### Noun

خُرُوسْ (ḫoros, ḫorōs)
* (zoology) rooster, cock

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: xoruz
* Gagauz: horoz
* Ottoman Turkish: خروس (horoz), خوروس (horos)
** Turkish: horoz
** → Armenian: խորոզ (xoroz)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: хо̏ро̄з
    Latin script: hȍrōz

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “horoz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1971

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* خوروس (horos)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish خُرُوسْ (ḫoros) , from Classical Persian خروس (xorôs, “rooster, cock”), ultimately from Middle Persian [script needed] (hlws /⁠xrōs⁠/, “cock”).

### Noun

خروس • (horoz) (definite accusative خروسی (horozu), plural خروسلر (horozlar))
* rooster, cock, roostcock, chanticleer, an adult male of the species Gallus gallus
    Synonym: دیك (dik)
* cock, hammer, a moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun
    Synonym: خروس آیاغی (horoz ayağı)
* (zoology) cock, any male bird, especially the leader in a flock of birds when migrating

#### Coordinate terms

* جیوجیو (civciv, “chick”)
* طاوق (tavuk, “hen”)
* پلیچ (piliç, “pullet”)

#### Derived terms

* امنیت خروسی (emniyet horozu, “safety hammer”)
* تفنك خروسی (tüfenk horozu, “hammer of a rifle”)
* خروس آیاغی (horoz ayağı, “cock of a firearm”)
* خروس اوتمك (horoz ötmek, “for a rooster, to crow”)
* خروس ایبكی (horoz ibiği, “cock's comb”)
* خروس ایشی (horoz işi, “camlet”)
* خروس طاشی (horoz taşı, “small stone in a rooster's stomach”)
* خروس عقللو (horoz ʼakıllı, “vain, presumptuous”)
* خروس یومورطه‌سی (horoz yumurtası, “pullet's egg”)
* خروسباز (horozbaz, “cock fighter”)
* خروسجق (horozcuk, “cockerel”)
* خروسك (horosek, “cockerel”)
* خروسلانمق (horozlanmak, “to strut, give one's self airs”)
* خروسچه (horesçe, “cockerel”)
* خروسی چوق مجلس (horoz çok meclis, “bedlam”)
* طاشلو خروس (taşlı horoz, “flint hammer”)
* فتیللی خروس (fitilli horoz, “fuse hammer”)
* یابان خروسی (yaban horozu, “wild rooster”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: horoz
* → Armenian: խորոզ (xoroz)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: хо̏ро̄з
    Latin script: hȍrōz

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “خروس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 698
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “horoz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1985
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “خروس”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 208b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خروس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 538
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gallus”, 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, Vienna, column 639
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خروس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1888
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “horoz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خروس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 843

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (hlws /⁠xrōs⁠/, “cock”, literally “the caller”), from [script needed] (hlwstn' /⁠xrōstan⁠/, “to call, to cry”).

### Pronunciation

* (Sistani) IPA: /xɾos/
* (Classical Persian) IPA: [xu.ɾoːs]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xʊ.ɾoːs]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xʊ.ɾoːs]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [xʊ.ɾoːs]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [xu.ɾʊːs]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [xo.ɹuːs]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [χu.ɾɵs]

### Noun

| Dari | خروس |
| Iranian Persian | خروس |
| Tajik | хурӯс |
خروس • (xorus, xorôs)
* rooster, cock

#### Derived terms

* خروس‌قندی (xorus-qandi)

#### Related terms

* خروشیدن (xorošidan)

#### Descendants

* → Chagatai: خوراز (ḫoraz), خروس (horus)
** Uyghur: خوراز (xoraz), غوراز (ghoraz)
** Uzbek: xoʻroz
* → Gujarati: ખુરૂસ (khurūs)
* → Khalaj: xurôs
* → Kipchak:
** → Kipchak–Cuman:
*** Armeno-Kipchak: խորոզ (χoroz), խորուզ (χoruz), խորսուղ (χorsuγ)
*** Crimean Tatar: qoraz, horaz
*** Cuman: ghorox
*** Karachay-Balkar: къораз (qoraz), хораз (xoraz)
*** Karaim: хороз
*** Krymchak: хороз
*** Kumyk: хораз (xoraz)
*** Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (ḫoroz)
** → Kipchak–Nogai:
*** Kazakh: қораз (qoraz)
*** Nogai: кораз (koraz)
** → Kyrgyz–Kipchak:
*** Kyrgyz: короз (koroz)
* → Old Anatolian Turkish: خُرُوسْ (ḫorūz)
** Azerbaijani: xoruz
** Gagauz: horoz
** Ottoman Turkish: خروس (horoz), خوروس (horos)
*** Turkish: horoz
*** → Armenian: խորոզ (xoroz)
*** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: хо̏ро̄з
    Latin script: hȍrōz
* → Turkmen: horaz
* → Urdu: خروس (xurūs)
* → Urum: хороз

### References

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xrōs”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 94
* Nyberg, H. S. (1974) “xrōs”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 219b
* Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 93a

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خروس (xurōs).

### Noun

خروس • (xurūs) m
* rooster, cock