oya

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See also: Oya, ọya, Ọya, and -ʼoyą

Japanese

Romanization

oya

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おや

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuoiya as an equivalent of English pick (up) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

oya (infinitive kuoya)

  1. to pick[2]
    Mũgambo ũrĩ kũgũa thĩ nduoyagwo; woyagwo na ũngĩ.[3]
    A falling voice is not picked up (by the speaker), but by others.
  2. to lift
    Yaarĩĩkia kuuga ũgwo ĩkĩoya magũrũ.[4]
    When he had said that he started off. (lit. it just finished saying so lifted feet.)

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

(to pick):
(to lift):

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 236.
  3. ^ Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 53. London: Macmillan.
  4. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, pp. 300–301. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Old Javanese

Etymology 1

Particle

oya

  1. Alternative spelling of wwaya (“no”)

Etymology 2

Particle

oya

  1. Alternative spelling of honya (“there”)

Further reading

  • P. J. Zoetmulder (1982) Old Javanese-English dictionary‎, 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, →ISBN, →OCLC

Tatar

Noun

oya

  1. nest

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish اویا (oya), ultimately borrowed from Greek ούγια (oúgia, “sheepskin; fringe, edge”).[1][2][3][4]

Noun

oya (definite accusative oyayı, plural oyalar)

  1. needle lace
    Synonym: iğne danteli
Declension
Inflection
Nominative oya
Definite accusative oyayı
Singular Plural
Nominative oya oyalar
Definite accusative oyayı oyaları
Dative oyaya oyalara
Locative oyada oyalarda
Ablative oyadan oyalardan
Genitive oyanın oyaların
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

oya

  1. dative singular of oy

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1675
  2. ^ Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oya”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3654
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  4. ^ Tietze, Andreas (2002, 2009) “oya”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume VI, Istanbul, Vienna, page 184
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