kuş

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Meaning

  1. bird, fowl
  2. (euphemistic) penis (mainly childish or humorous)

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kuʃ/
Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قوش (kuş), from Proto-Turkic *kuĺ (“bird”). Cognate with Tatar кош (qoş), Kazakh құс (qūs), Kyrgyz куш (kuş), Khakas хус (xus), Karachay-Balkar къуш (quş), Uzbek qush, Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰽 (quš, “bird”).

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Tavuslara, sülünlere bakmaya  tenezzül  etmeyen  yabani   kuş
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, kanadı  kırık   bir
1
 çulluğun,  avı   oldu .

The wild bird, which did not bother to look at the peacocks and pheasants, became the prey of a snipe with a broken wing.

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