صیوا

Ottoman Turkish

صیوا

Alternative forms

• صوا (sıva)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïbak (“plaster”), a development of *sïba- (“to smear, daub”), whence صیوامق (sıvamak, “to smear, daub”). Cognate with Azerbaijani suvaq.

Noun

صیوا • (sıva) (definite accusative صیوایی (sıvayı), plural صیوالر (sıvalar))

1. plaster, stucco, render, a mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water used for coating walls and ceilings

   Synonym: كج (kec)

Derived terms

• صیوا خرجی (sıva harcı, “plaster prepared for use as stucco”)
• صیوا صوماقی (sıva somakı, “stucco imitating porphyry”)
• صیواجی (sıvacı, “plasterer”)
• صیواسز (sıvasız, “without plaster”)
• صیوالامق (sıvalamak, “to apply plaster”)
• صیوالانمق (sıvalanmak, “to become coated with plaster”)
• صیوالو (sıvalı, “plastered, stuccoed”)
• مرمر صیواسی (mermer sıvası, “finest hard-finished stucco”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sıva
• → Albanian: suva
• → Armenian: սըվա (səva), սվաղ (svaġ)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “صیوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 242
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sıva1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4220
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صوا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 303a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 781
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Albarium”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 46
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صوا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2996
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sıva”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1203