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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish جیوجیو (civciv, “cry of a young bird; young bird”).[1][2] Probably imitative.[3] In pre-Ottoman writing (Ahmedî, İskendernâme) as (cūje), and similarly in Persian, as جوجه (juje).
Compare Armenian ճիվճիվ (čivčiv), ծիվծիվ (civciv, “cry of a bird”), Bulgarian джив-джив (dživ-dživ), Macedonian џив-џив (dživ-dživ).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: civ‧civ
Noun
civciv (definite accusative civcivi, plural civcivler)
- chick (young chicken)
- (slang) young woman
Declension
References
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جیوجیو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 454
- ^ Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “civciv”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1667
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “civciv”, in Nişanyan Sözlük