كوی

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See also: كوى, گوی, and کوی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Classical Persian (kōy) from Middle Persian (kwd /⁠kōy⁠/, “lane, street”).^[1] Compare dialectal Azerbaijani (“village”) in Zanjan and Persian (“lane”), or,
from Old Armenian գիւղ (giwł, “village; country”).^[2] Compare the variants كوك (köğ), كوو (köv).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

كوی • (köy)

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

Derived terms

آرناود كوی (arnavud köy, “Arnavutköy, a district in Turkey”)
خاصكوی (Hasköy, “a city in Bulgaria”)
كویلك (köylük, “quality of a village”)
كویلو (köylü, “villager”)

Descendants

Turkish: köy
→ Crimean Tatar: köy

References

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

Further reading

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
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “köy”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1608

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