كوتاه

See also: کوتاه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian کوتاه (kutâh, “short”), from Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠kotāh⁠/).

Adjective

كوتاه • (kûtah)

1. short, having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically

   Synonyms: قصیر (kesir), قیصه (kısa)

Derived terms

• كوتاه اندیش (kûtah endiş, “deficient in fore-thought”)
• كوتاه بین (kûtah bin, “short-sighted”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kûtah

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kûtah”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2865
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوتاه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 398b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوتاه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1046
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Brevis”, 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 126
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوتاه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4052
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوتاه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1581