دوه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tebe; cognate with Azerbaijani dəvə, Bashkir дөйә (döyə), Chuvash тӗве (tĕve), Kazakh түйе (tüie), Kyrgyz төө (töö), Turkmen düýe, Uyghur تۆگە (töge) and Uzbek tuya.

Noun

دوه • (deve)

1. camel, any beast of burden of the genus Camelus

   Synonym: شتر (şütür)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Gagauz: devä
• Turkish: deve
  • → Zazaki: deva
• → Albanian: deve
• → Armenian: դավա (dava)
• → Northern Kurdish: deve
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: дева

  Latin script: deva

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “deve”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1185
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 593
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Camelus”, 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 139
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 2195–2196
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “deve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 929

Pashto

Etymology

From Proto-Pathan *dwa, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *dwa, from Proto-Iranian *dwáH (compare Persian دو (do), Pashto دوه (dwa), Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬎𐬀 (duua)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dwáH (compare Sanskrit द्व (dvá), Hindi दो (do)/Urdu دو (do), Punjabi ਦੋ (do)), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (compare Russian два (dva), Lithuanian du, Greek δύο (dýo), Spanish dos, English two).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dwa/

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Noun

دوه • (dwa)

1. two

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