See also: Oya, ọya, Ọya, and -ʼoyą

Japanese

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Romanization

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oya

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おや

Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records kuoiya as an equivalent of English pick (up) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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oya (infinitive kuoya)

  1. to pick[2]
    Mũgambo ũrĩ kũgũa thĩ nduoyagwo; woyagwo na ũngĩ.[3]
    A falling voice is not picked up (by the speaker), but by others.
  2. to lift
    Yaarĩĩkia kuuga ũgwo ĩkĩoya magũrũ.[4]
    When he [a hyena (hiti)] had said that he started off. (lit. it just finished saying so lifted feet.)

Derived terms

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(Proverbs)

(to pick):
(to lift):

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 236.
  3. ^ Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 53. London: Macmillan.
  4. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, pp. 300–301. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Old Javanese

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Etymology 1

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Particle

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oya

  1. Alternative spelling of wwaya (no)

Etymology 2

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Particle

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oya

  1. Alternative spelling of honya (there)

Further reading

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  • P. J. Zoetmulder (1982) Old Javanese-English dictionary[1], 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, →ISBN, →OCLC

Tatar

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Noun

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oya

  1. nest

Turkish

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Etymology 1

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From Ottoman Turkish اویا (oya), ultimately borrowed from Greek ούγια (oúgia, sheepskin; fringe, edge).[1][2][3][4]

Noun

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oya (definite accusative oyayı, plural oyalar)

  1. needle lace
Declension
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Inflection
Nominative oya
Definite accusative oyayı
Singular Plural
Nominative oya oyalar
Definite accusative oyayı oyaları
Dative oyaya oyalara
Locative oyada oyalarda
Ablative oyadan oyalardan
Genitive oyanın oyaların
Synonyms
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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oya

  1. dative singular of oy

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1675
  2. ^ Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oya”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3654
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  4. ^ Tietze, Andreas (2002, 2009) “oya”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume VI, Istanbul, Vienna, page 184