خیوه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian خیوه (xive).

Proper noun

خیوه • (hive)

1. Khiva (a city in the Xorazm region, Uzbekistan)

Descendants

• Turkish: Hive

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خیوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 878