سوی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic سَوِيّ (sawiyy, “equal, even”).
Adjective edit
سوی • (seviy)
- equal, uniform, equable, without variations or changes
- Synonym: دنك (denk)
- even, level, flat, having the same height at all places
Descendants edit
- Turkish: seviy
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “seviy”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4176
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “seviyy”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1134
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 703
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 2716
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1095
Persian edit
Alternative forms edit
- سو (su)
Etymology edit
From Middle Persian swk' (sōg, “side, direction”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [soːj]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [suːj]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [sɵj]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | sōy |
| Dari reading? | sūy |
| Iranian reading? | suy |
| Tajik reading? | süy |
Noun edit
سوی • (suy)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “swk'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 75
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سوی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul