كوپری

See also: كوبري‎

Ottoman Turkish

كوپری

Alternative forms

كورپی‎ (körpi), كورپو‎ (körpü)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *köpürüg (“bridge”); cognate with Azerbaijani körpü, Bashkir күпер (küper), Chuvash кӗпер (kĕp̬er), Kazakh көпір (köpır), Kyrgyz көпүрө (köpürö), Tatar күпер (küper), Turkmen köpri, Uyghur كۆۋرۈك‎ (köwrük) and Uzbek koʻprik.

Noun

كوپری • (köpri)

bridge, a construction or natural feature that spans a divide
Synonyms: پل‎ (pül), قنطره‎ (kantara)
cleat, a strip of wood or iron fastened onto something in order to give strength
trigger guard, a thin loop surrounding the trigger of a firearm

Derived terms

آصمه كوپری‎ (asma köpri, “drawbridge”)
طاش كوپریسی‎ (taş köprisi, “stone bridge”)
طوقه كوپریسی‎ (toka köprisi, “bridge of a buckle”)
كلید كوپریسی‎ (kilid köprisi, “hasp of a lock”)
كمان كوپریسی‎ (keman köprisi, “bridge of a violin”)
كوپریجك‎ (köpricik, “collarbone”)
كوپریجی‎ (köprici, “toll-taker of a bridge”)
كوپریلو‎ (köprili, “bridged”)

Descendants

Turkish: köprü
Gagauz: köprü
→ Hijazi Arabic: كبري‎ (kubri)
→ Egyptian Arabic: كوبري‎ (kobrı)
→ Armenian: քէօփրիւ (kʿēōpʿriw)
→ Bulgarian: кюприя (kjuprija) (obsolete)
→ Greek: κιοπρουλής (kioproulís)
→ Ladino: kyupri, kopri
→ Macedonian: ќуприја (ḱuprija)
→ Serbo-Croatian: ћу̀прија/ćùprija

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “köprü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2787
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كوپری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1045
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Pons”, 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 1317
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كوپری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4050
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “köprü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كوپری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1582

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