خاو

Arabic

Root
خ وي (ḵ-w-y)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xaː.win/

Adjective

خَاوٍ (ḵāwin) (informal خَاوِي (ḵāwī), feminine خَاوِيَة (ḵāwiya), masculine plural خَاوُونَ (ḵāwūna) or خُوَاة (ḵuwāh), feminine plural خَاوِيَات (ḵāwiyāt))

  1. active participle of خَوَى (ḵawā) and خَوِيَ (ḵawiya): empty, devoid, desolate, not saturated with anything
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل, أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 12:
      ومعدتي خاوية ليس فيها ما أتقيّأه
      In my empty stomach there was nothing to vomit.

Declension

Descendants

  • Moroccan Arabic: خاوي (ḵāwi)

Central Kurdish

Northern Kurdish xav

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *HaHmáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HaHmás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₃mós (raw, uncooked).

Adjective

خاو (xaw)

  1. raw, uncooked

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • حاو (hav), هاو (hav)

Etymology

Perhaps the same word as قاو (kav, tinder, punk), imagining the tinder conk or another porous material as a soft fuzz hanging around. Cognate with Azerbaijani xov (nap, pile). Synonymous Middle Armenian խաւ (xaw), Georgian ხაო (xao), Ossetian хау (xaw) / хауӕ (xawæ) and Udi ха (χa, wool) then are earlier Turkic borrowings. But if the 5th century Old Armenian խաւ (xaw, layer) is the same word, a Turkic origin is impossible.

Noun

خاو (hav)

  1. fuzz, down

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • Абаев, В. И. (1989) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow, Leningrad: Academy Press, page 147
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), խաւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 350ab
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 60 Nr. 231
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), خاو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 530b
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), hav1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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