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koca.

large, big

4 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

adj/koˈd͡ʒa/

  1. large, big

    Koca bir arabayla geldi

  2. huge, enormous, whole

    Koca dağları aşıp buraya gelmiş.
    Koca evi kendi elleriyle yaptı.

  3. big, large, whole, often used to emphasize something unusual, unbecoming, or ironic of something or someone given their size, duration, age, or status etc.

    figuratively
    Koca bir yıl geçti ama hâlâ emekli maaşımı alamadım.
    Koca şehirde bir tane tanıdık bulamadım.

  4. old, elder

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوجه (koca), possibly a doublet of Ottoman Turkish خواجه (hoca), from Classical Persian خواجه (xwāja). Cognate with Tatar хуҗа (xuca, “host, owner”), Kazakh қожа (qoja, “host, owner”), Kyrgyz кожо (kojo, “host, owner”), Uzbek xoʻja (“host, owner”), Uyghur خوجا (xoja, “host, owner”), Bashkir хужа (xuja, “master, owner”).

noun/koˈd͡ʒa/

  1. husband

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوجه (koca), possibly a doublet of Ottoman Turkish خواجه (hoca), from Classical Persian خواجه (xwāja). Cognate with Tatar хуҗа (xuca, “host, owner”), Kazakh қожа (qoja, “host, owner”), Kyrgyz кожо (kojo, “host, owner”), Uzbek xoʻja (“host, owner”), Uyghur خوجا (xoja, “host, owner”), Bashkir хужа (xuja, “master, owner”).

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