یوا

Ottoman Turkish

یوا

Alternative forms

• یووه (yuva), یوه (yuva)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *uya (“nest”); cognate with Azerbaijani yuva, Bashkir оя (oya), Chuvash йӑва (jăva), Kazakh ұя (ūä), Kyrgyz уя (uya), Tatar оя (oya), Uyghur ئۇۋا (uwa) and Uzbek uya.

Noun

یوا • (yuva)

1. nest, a structure built by birds as a place to incubate eggs

   Synonyms: آشیانه (aşiyane), عش (uş), لانه (lane)

2. socket, a depression or hollow in which a thing rests or works

Derived terms

• یوالامق (yuvalamak, “to nest”)
• یوالانمق (yuvalanmak, “to become a nest or socket”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yuva
• → Armenian: յուվա (yuva)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yuva1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5390
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یوا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 511b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1370
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nidus”, 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 1136
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5613
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yuva”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2211