پزونك

Etymology
From, , , whence also 🇨🇬.

The oft-repeated etymology from is incorrect, as the Armenian term is a barely-attested literary invention, whereas Turkish borrowings from Armenian are usually acquired orally from Armenian dialects.

See also the colloquial variants of ; even if the present Turkish term is borrowed from Persian, in Iran the term may be itself have been loaned from the northwest to designate a “whore-watcher” (not the best-recorded regiolects of Turkish and Persian also).

Noun

 * 1) procurer, whoremaster, pimp, mackerel, bawd