Gevaşe/Kevaşe
First mentioned in Meninski, Thesaurus [1680], facsimile Simurg 2000. 1680 kavvāde قوّادة fuhşa aracılık eden kadın, female pimp. ḳawwāda ͭ قوّادة
[1] pimp (n.) c.1600, of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle French pimpant "alluring in dress, seductive," present participle of pimper "to dress elegantly" (16c.), from Old French pimpelorer, pipelorer "decorate, color, beautify." Weekley suggests Middle French pimpreneau, defined in Cotgrave (1611) as "a knave, rascall, varlet, scoundrell," but Liberman is against this.
Judging by such recorded meanings of pimp as 'helper in mines; servant in logging camps,' this word was originally applied to boys and servants. [Liberman]
The word also means "informer, stool pigeon" in Australia and New Zealand and in South Africa, where by early 1960s it existed in Swahili form impimpsi.
Pimp A male procurer, or cock bawd; also a small faggot used about London for lighting fires, named from introducing the fire to the coals. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]
pimp (v.) : 1630s (intransitive) "to act as a pimp," from pimp (n.). Related: Pimped; pimping.
First mentioned in Meninski, Thesaurus [1680], facsimile Simurg 2000. 1680 kavvāde قوّادة fuhşa aracılık eden kadın, female pimp. ḳawwāda ͭ قوّادة
Gavat /Kavat: TR, pimp EN[1]
First mentioned in Codex Cumanicus [circa1300] ed. Kuun, Budapest 1981. Dede Korkut Kitabı [14. century] ed. Ergin, TDK 1997. 1400 kavvad a put down word from Arabic ḳawwād قوّاد muhabbet tellalı, fuhuşa aracılık eden TR , pimp EN from Arabic ḳāda قادönayak oldu, iş bitirdi TR, one who finishes a deal, go between EN.
[1] pimp (n.) c.1600, of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle French pimpant "alluring in dress, seductive," present participle of pimper "to dress elegantly" (16c.), from Old French pimpelorer, pipelorer "decorate, color, beautify." Weekley suggests Middle French pimpreneau, defined in Cotgrave (1611) as "a knave, rascall, varlet, scoundrell," but Liberman is against this.
Judging by such recorded meanings of pimp as 'helper in mines; servant in logging camps,' this word was originally applied to boys and servants. [Liberman]
The word also means "informer, stool pigeon" in Australia and New Zealand and in South Africa, where by early 1960s it existed in Swahili form impimpsi.
Pimp A male procurer, or cock bawd; also a small faggot used about London for lighting fires, named from introducing the fire to the coals. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]
pimp (v.) : 1630s (intransitive) "to act as a pimp," from pimp (n.). Related: Pimped; pimping.