koyun

Meaning

Noun

1. sheep
2. (broadly,derogatory,figuratively) A person who tends to be led by others easily.

Verb

second-person plural imperative of koymak

Hyphenated as

ko‧yun

Pronounced as (IPA)

/koˈjun/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قویون (koyun), from Proto-Turkic *koń. Cognate with Azerbaijani qoyun, Old Turkic 𐰸𐰆𐰪 (koñ), Turkmen goýun, Kazakh қой (qoi), Uzbek qo'y. Related to written Mongolian ᠬᠣᠨᠢᠨ (qonin, “sheep”), Mongolian хонь (xonʹ, “sheep”), Buryat хонин (xonin, “sheep”) and Kalmyk хөн (xön, “sheep”), but the nature of relationship is unclear; the Mongolic terms may be borrowed from Turkic. Pedersen derived all of these forms from Old Armenian խոյ (xoy), but in Doerfer's opinion this is phonetically impossible. Ačaṙyan too regards the resemblance to Old Armenian խոյ (xoy) as accidental.

Sentences

Bir dalın gölgesinde bin koyun eğlenir.

A thousand sheep have fun in the shadow of a branch.