اوا

See also: آوا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *oba (“cavity, valley”).

Noun

اوا • (ova)

1. plain, grassy plain, meadow

Derived terms

• اواجق (ovacık)
• اوالق (ovalık)

Descendants

• Turkish: ova
• → Armenian: օվա (ōva)

References

• "Proto-Turkic Root: *oba; Number 1541" in Georgiy Starostin, Tower of Babel, Copyright 1998-2003 by S. Starostin.
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ova”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 232