Where does “أراجوز” come from?
أراجوز (Egyptian Arabic) comes from Ottoman Turkish قرهگوز, from Ottoman Turkish گوز, from Proto-Turkic kǖŕ, from Proto-Turkic *-iŋ.
Ancestry of “أراجوز”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | قرهگوز | blackeye; a character used in traditional Turkish... |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | گوز | eye; autumn |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | kǖŕ | autumn |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | *-iŋ | — |