كوی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps from Proto-Turkic *kon-, *ko- (“to put”), whence قونمق (konmak, “to settle, perch”) and قومق (komak, “to put”). Alternatively, Nişanian proposes a derivation from Middle Persian [script needed] (kōy, “street”).
Noun
كوی • (köy)
Derived terms
- خاصكوی (Hasköy, “a city in Bulgaria”)
- كویلك (köylük, “quality of a village”)
- كویلو (köylü, “villager”)
Descendants
- Turkish: köy
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “köy”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2807
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1062
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Pagus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1133
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4099
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “köy”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1608
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