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chaoosh

Syllables: cha·oosh

chaoosh is the obsolete spelling of chiaus.

Meaning of chiaus

Noun

chiaus (plural chiauses)

  1. (historical) An Ottoman Empire court official; an attendant, messenger, herald, interpreter.
  2. (historical) An Ottoman Empire çavuş (“sergeant”).

Noun capitalized: Chaoosh

Chaoosh

  1. Alternative letter-case form of chaoosh; obsolete spelling of chiaus.
    • They are under the guidance of a Chaoosh, or Superintendant, a most consequential personage, and generally a Seid, with a mixture of Turkish and Persian in him which no doubt adds both to his servility and insolence.1828, Robert Cotton Money, Journal of a Tour in Persia, during the years 1824 & 1825, London: Teape and Son, →OCLC, page 86

Origin of chaoosh

See chiaus.

Questions about chaoosh

What is chaoosh the obsolete spelling of?
Chaoosh is the obsolete spelling of chiaus.
What part of speech is chaoosh?
Chaoosh is a noun.

Words near chaoosh in the dictionary

  1. chaomian
  2. Chaon
  3. Chaonan
  4. chaoni
  5. chaonis
  6. chaoosh
  7. chaophilia
  8. chaophilic
  9. chaoplex
  10. chaoplexic
  11. chaoplexity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chaoosh (page history and authors); Chaoosh (page history and authors); chiaus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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