# كوج
## Arabic
### Etymology

From Khorezmian Turkic كوچ (küç, “force, power, work, effort”), from Proto-Common Turkic *kǖč (“force”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuːd͡ʒ/

### Noun

كُوج • (kūj) m (obsolete, Ilkhanate)
* service, power offered, corvee, what a vassal performs
** 1283, “[Ilkhan] Aḥmad Tegüder’s Second Letter to [Sultan] Qalāʾūn”, in Judith Pfeiffer, editor, History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East. Studies in Honor of John E. Woods, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, published 2006, →ISBN, page 194:وَيَتَّفِقُ الْجَمِيعُ عَلَى الْقِيَامِ بِوَاجِبِ كُوجِ قَانَ وَخِدْمَتِهِwa-yattafiqu l-jamīʕu ʕalā l-qiyāmi bi-wājibi kūji qāna wa-ḵidmati-hīAnd all agree upon performing work and service for the Khan.

#### Declension
### References

* Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎ (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 625–628

## Bulgar
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *köč-.

### Verb

كُوَج (küweç/köç)
* (Volga Bulgar) to migrate
    …دِنياران كوجرُوى تارِيخَ جِيَاتِ جُورْ وطر اكش جَال رجب ايخ ― Dinyârân kö:çrüwi târîxa çyeti çü:r wutur ekiş çâl Racab ayxi... ― The date he was passing from the world [was in] Racab month of seven hundred thirty second year.
    عُلَمَا سَمنَ سَوَان مَسجِد سَمنَ عَمَارَة طَنَان اَكِل خَيرَاتلُ الُوى بَرَكاتلُ مُون سُوَار يَالِ [...] عَلىِ خوَاجَه آولِ آترَج خُواجَه آولِ آبُوبَكَر خُوَاجَه آولِ آلِبْ خُواجَه بَلُوى كُ دنيَاران كُوَجرُوي تَاريخَ جِيَاتِ جُور سَكِر جَال جمَادِى الاُولَ آيخِ جِيرِم اكِش كُوان آتِ ― 'Ulamâsemne sevên mescidsemne 'amâret tanân ekil hayrâtlu, elüwi berekâtlu Mûn Suwâr yêli [...] Ali howâce awli Atrac howâce awli Abûbeker howâce awli Alıp howâce belüwi kü. Dinyârân köweçrüwi târîxa çyeti çü:r sekir çâl camâdî-l-ûla ayxi çîrim ekiş küwen eti. ― This is the monument of teacher [...] Ali's son teacher Atrac's son teacher Ebubeker's son teacher Alıp, who loves scholars and builds mosques, very beneficent, whose hands are fertile, who is descent from the big Suwâr clan. The date he was migrating from this world was twenty second day of the Camadilula month of the year seven hundred eight.

#### Usage notes

* ↑ Racab 732 is march-april of the year 1332.
* ↑ Cemaziyelvvel 22, 708 is November 7, 1308, Friday.

#### Descendants

* Chuvash: куҫ (kuś)

### References

* Róna-Tas, András (1976) “A Volga Bulgarıan Inscription from 1307”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎ (in Bulgar), volume 30, number 2, page 155
* Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 199

## Karakhanid
### Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *kǖč.

### Noun

كُوجْ (kǖč)
* strength, power
    اَلْبْ‌لارْ اَرِغْ اَلْقِشُرْ کُجْ بیٖـرْ قِلِبْ اَرْقَشُرْ بیٖـرْ بیٖـرْ اوُزا اَلْقِشَرْ اَذْکَرْمَذِبْ اُقْ اَتَارْAlplar arïɣ alkïšur Küč bīr qïlïp arqašur Bīr bīr üze alqašur Eδgermeδip oq atār(please add an English translation of this usage example)

### References

* ↑ al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 237