فاخته

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

First attested in 1482 in Old Anatolian Turkish, from Persian فاخته (fâxte).

Noun

فاخته • (fahte)

1. two types of columbids:
   1. wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)

      Synonym: قوسقوغوق (kuskuğuk)

   2. turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur)

Derived terms

• فاختی (fahıtı, “dove-colored”)

Descendants

• Turkish: fattıke (with metathesis)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فاخته”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 3449–3450
• Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13^th to the 16^th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎^[2], Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 91
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فاخته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1358
• Tietze, Andreas (2009) “fahte”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 28a

Persian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [fɑːx.ˈta]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fɑːx.t̪ʰǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fɑːx.t̪ʰǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [fɑːx.t̪ʰǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [fɔːx.t̪ʰǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [fɒːx.t̪ʰé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [fɔχ.t̪ʰǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	fāxta
Dari reading?	fāxta
Iranian reading?	fâxte
Tajik reading?	foxta

Noun

فاخته • (fâxte)

1. dove, especially of genus Streptopelia
2. (dialectal) cuckoo

Descendants

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: فاخته (fâhte)
  • Ottoman Turkish: فاخته (fahte)
    • Turkish: fattıke (with metathesis)
  • Classical Azerbaijani: faxtə

References

• Steblin-Kamenskij, I.M. (1999) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ vaxanskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Wakhi Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskoje Vostokovedenije, →ISBN, page 174