كوی

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See also: كوى, گوی, and کوی

Old Anatolian Turkish

Alternative forms

كُوكْ (köğ)

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from Classical Persian (kōy) or from Middle Armenian գիւղ (giwġ), գեօղ (geōġ, “village”).^[1] Compare the variants كُوكْ (köğ), كوو (köv), still seen in Anatolian dialects.

Noun

كُویْ (köy)

village

Descendants

Ottoman Turkish: كوی (köy), كوك (köğ), كوو (köv)
- Turkish: köy
- → Crimean Tatar: köy

From the alternative form كُوكْ (köğ):

Gagauz: küü

References

^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “köy”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

كوك (köğ), كوو (köv)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish كُویْ (köy), كُوكْ (köğ). See it for more.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /cøj/
(Western Western Rumelia often) IPA^(key): /co̞j/

Noun

كوی • (köy) (definite accusative كویو (köyü), plural كویلر (köyler))

village, a rural settlement of size between a hamlet and a town
Synonyms: ده (dih), قریه (karye), كنت (kent)
countryside, a rural area located outside of towns and cities
Synonym: قیر (kır)

Derived terms

آرناود كوی (arnavud köy, “Arnavutköy, a district in Turkey”)
باقركوی (bakırköy, “Bakırköy, a district in Turkey”)
خاصكوی (hasköy, “Haskovo, a city in Bulgaria”)
كوی آدمی (köy adamı, “villager”)
كوی صو باشیسی (köy su başısı, “officer who maintains the village”)
كوی فنری (köy feneri, “physalis”, literally “village's lighthouse”)
كوی كزیری (köy geziri, “bailiff of the village”)
كوی كهیاسی (köy kehyası, “notable of the village”)
كویلك (köylük, “quality of a village”)
كویلو (köylü, “villager”)
كویه كتمك (köye gitmek, “to go into the country”)
پهلوان كوی (pehlivân köy, “Pehlivanköy, a district in Turkey”)
چركس كوی (çerkes köy, “Çerkezköy, a district in Turkey”)
یشیل كوی (yeşil köy, “Yeşilköy, a neighbourhood in Bakırköy district”)

Descendants

Turkish: köy
→ Crimean Tatar: köy

Further reading

Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 681
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “köy”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2807
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 406a
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1062
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pagus”, 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 1133
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4099
Németh, Julius (1961) “Traces of the Turkish language in Albania”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎, volume 13, number 1/2, page 21
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1606

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