توی
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توی
See also: توي
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- توك (tüğ)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tǖk (“hair, feather”); cognate with Azerbaijani tük (“hair”), Bashkir төк (tök), Chuvash тӗк (tĕk), Kazakh түк (tük), Kyrgyz түк (tük), Turkmen tüý, Uyghur تۈك (tük), Uzbek tuk and Yakut түү (tüü).
Noun
توی • (tüy)
- body hair, the hair of the body as opposed to facial hair and headhair
- feather, a branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
- down, the soft, fluffy, immature feathers which grow on young birds
- quill, the lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- باش تویی (baş tüyü, “crest feathers”)
- توی توس (tüy tüs, “hair and down”)
- توی دوكمك (tüy dökmek, “to moult”)
- توی قلم (tüy kalem, “quill pen”)
- توی یولمق (tüy yolmak, “to pluck feathers”)
- تویجكز (tüyceğiz, “small or pet hair”)
- تویسز (tüysüz, “hairless; featherless”)
- تویلنمك (tüylenmek, “to become covered with hairs”)
- تویلو (tüylü, “feathered; furry”)
- تویی دوزمك (tüyü düzmek, “to get the coat in good condition”)
- دوه تویی (deve tüyü, “fawn color”)
- صیچان تویی (sıçan tüyü, “mouse color”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tüy1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4952
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “توی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 171b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 418
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pilus”, 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, Vienna, column 1301
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “توی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 1481–1482
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tüy”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “توی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 614