kwšk'

Middle Persian

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve; arch, vault”), with the original meaning possibly being "a room at the top corner of a castle", and related to Persian (guše, “corner, angle”) and Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬀𐬐𐬀 (gaošaka, “corner”).[1]

Noun

kwšk' • (kōšk)[2]

Descendants

Persian: کوشک (kôšk)
- Tajik: кӯшк (küšk)
- → Azerbaijani: köşk
- → Ottoman Turkish: كوشك (köşk, kuşk)
  - Turkish: köşk
  - → Armenian: քյոշկ (kʻyošk)
  - → Italian: chiosco
    - → French: kiosque
      - → Dutch: kiosk
        Afrikaans: kiosk
        → Indonesian: kios
        → Ternate: kios
      - → English: kiosk
      - → Norman: kiosque
      - → Norwegian Bokmål: kiosk
      - → Polish: kiosk
      - → Portuguese: quiosque
      - → Russian: киоск (kiosk), кіо́скъ (kiósk)
        → Georgian: კიოსკი (ḳiosḳi)
        → Hebrew: קִיּוׄסְק (kiyósk)
        → Yakut: киоск (kiosk)
      - → Spanish: kiosco
    - → English: kiosk
    - → German: Kiosk
      - → Hungarian: kioszk
    - → Persian: کیوسک (kiyusk)
    - → Polish: kiosk
    - → Portuguese: quiosque
    - → Spanish: quiosco
  - → Romanian: chioșc
- → Turkmen: köşk

Taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian:

→ Classical Syriac: ܓܘܫܩܐ (gawšāqā)
- → Arabic: جوسق (jawsaq, jūsaq)
→ Georgian: კოშკი (ḳošḳi)
→ Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: קושקא (qōšqā)

References

Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 146
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kōšk”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 51

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[1] Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 146

[2] MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kōšk”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 51