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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
From Persian داو (dâv).
Noun
داو • (dav)
- player's turn at play
- player's doubling his stake
- refill of a glass to drink one's health
Descendants
Etymology 2
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Noun
داو • (dav)
- Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii)
Descendants
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Arabic دَاو (dāw, “dhow”).
Noun
داو • (dav)
- dhow, a traditional boat used along the coasts of Arabia
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dav”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1113
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “داو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 564
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “داو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2015
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “داو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 885