كوپری
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كوپری
See also: كوبري
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *köpürüg (“bridge”); cognate with Azerbaijani körpü, Bashkir күпер (küper), Chuvash кӗпер (kĕp̬er), Kazakh көпір (köpır), Kyrgyz көпүрө (köpürö), Tatar күпер (küper), Turkmen köpri, Uyghur كۆۋرۈك (köwrük) and Uzbek koʻprik.
Noun
كوپری • (köpri)
- bridge, a construction or natural feature that spans a divide
- cleat, a strip of wood or iron fastened onto something in order to give strength
- trigger guard, a thin loop surrounding the trigger of a firearm
Derived terms
- آصمه كوپری (asma köpri, “drawbridge”)
- طاش كوپریسی (taş köprisi, “stone bridge”)
- طوقه كوپریسی (toka köprisi, “bridge of a buckle”)
- كلید كوپریسی (kilid köprisi, “hasp of a lock”)
- كمان كوپریسی (keman köprisi, “bridge of a violin”)
- كوپریجك (köpricik, “collarbone”)
- كوپریجی (köprici, “toll-taker of a bridge”)
- كوپریلو (köprili, “bridged”)
Descendants
- Turkish: köprü
- Gagauz: köprü
- → Hijazi Arabic: كبري (kubri)
- → Egyptian Arabic: كوبري (kobrı)
- → Armenian: քէօփրիւ (kʻēōpʻriw)
- → Bulgarian: кюприя (kjuprija) (obsolete)
- → Greek: κιοπρουλής (kioproulís)
- → Ladino: kyupri, kopri
- → Macedonian: ќуприја (ḱuprija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ћу̀прија/ćùprija
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “köprü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2787
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوپری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 398a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوپری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1045
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pons”, 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 1317
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوپری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4050
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “köprü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوپری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1580