dəvə

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic дәвә
Roman dəvə
Perso-Arabic دوه‎

Etymology

Fom Proto-Turkic *debe [1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (teve, “camel”), Turkish deve, Turkmen düýe, Crimean Tatar deve, Kazakh түйе (tüye), Uzbek tuya, Kyrgyz төө (töö), Uyghur تۆگە‎ (töge), Tatar дөя (döya), Chuvash тӗве (tĕve).

Noun

dəvə (definite accusative dəvəni, plural dəvələr)

  1. camel

Declension

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*debe”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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