دایی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دای (dayı), طایی (dayı)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tāy, *dāj (“maternal uncle”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tay, tagay), Azerbaijani dayı, Kyrgyz тай (tay), Southern Altai таай (taay), Turkmen daýy and Yakut таай (taay). Akin to Persian دایی (dâyi) and تغایی (taġāyī), both Turkic borrowings.

Noun

دایی • (dayı) (definite accusative داییی (dayıyı), plural داییلر (dayılar))

1. maternal uncle, the brother of one's mother, thus a second-degree relative

   Synonym: خال (hal) — literary

2. (historical) dey, the ruler of the Regency of Algiers under the Ottoman Empire

Coordinate terms

• تیزه (teyze, “maternal aunt”)
• خاله (hala, “paternal aunt”)
• عموجه (ʼamuca, “paternal uncle”)

Derived terms

• قبا دایی (kaba dayı, “bully”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dayı
• → Albanian: dajë
• → Armenian: տայի (tayi), դայի (dayi)
• → French: dey
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: да̀иџа

  Latin script: dàidža

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 729
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dayı3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1119
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دایی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 219a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دایی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 565
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Avunculus”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 110
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دایی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 2019
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dayı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دایی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 887

Persian

Alternative forms

• دائی (dâ'i), دای (dây)

Etymology

A Turkic borrowing: compare Turkish dayı, Azerbaijani dayı.

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɒː.jíː]

Readings
Iranian reading?	dâyi

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	ماما
Iranian Persian	دایی
Tajik	тағо

دایی • (dâyi)

1. (chiefly Iran) maternal uncle (mother's brother)

   Synonym: (Dari) ماما (mâmâ)

   Coordinate terms: عمو ('amu), کاکا (kâkâ), کاکو (kâko)

Descendants

• → Khalaj: dâyı

See also

• عمه ('amme) (paternal aunt)
• خاله (xâle) (maternal aunt)

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “دایی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press