طوی

See also: طوى and طوي

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• توی (toy)

Etymology 1

طوی

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tod (“bustard”), a root that is known in Turkic languages from the 11th century. Compare Khakas тодах (todax), Kyrgyz тоодак (toodak) and Turkmen togdary, all containing the same root.

Noun

طوی • (toy)

1. great bustard, any bird of the species Otis tarda

   Synonym: حباری (hubara)

2. (figuratively) fool, dullard, dolt, a stupid person

Adjective

طوی • (toy)

1. immature, naive, clueless, simple-minded, lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement

Derived terms

• طوی یاوروسی (toy yavrusu, “young of a bustard”)
• عربستان طویی (ʼarabistan toyu, “houbara bustard”)
• كوچوك طوی (küçük toy, “little bustard”)
• چاغرغان طوی (çağırgan toy, “bittern”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: toy
• → Albanian: tojë

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “toy3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4882
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طوی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 320a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 825
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Otis”, 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 1228
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3155
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “toy1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1264

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *toy (“camp; gathering; feast”), a word related to دویمق (doymak, “to become satisfied, saturated, sated”) and Old Turkic [script needed] (tod-).

Noun

طوی • (toy or doy)

1. (in general) banquet, feast, any large meal, often of a ceremonial nature

   Synonym: ضیافت (zıyafet, ziyafet)

2. (in particular) wedding-feast, a banquet held after the completion of a marriage

Derived terms

• طوی ایتمك (toy etmek, “to give a feast”)

Descendants

• Turkish: toy

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “toy1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4882
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[6], Constantinople: Mihran, page 825
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “toy2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1264

Turkmen

Alternative forms

• toý, sc-Latin

Etymology

from Proto-Turkic *toy (feast).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [toj]
• IPA^(key): [tʰoj]

Noun

طوی (toý)

1. wedding

   طوینگز قوتلی بولسین

   toýuňyz gutly bolsyn

   happy wedding

2. feast, banquet