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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tāy, *dāj (“maternal uncle”); cognate with Old Turkic (tay, tagay), Azerbaijani dayı, Kyrgyz тай (tay), Southern Altai таай (taay), Turkmen daýy and Yakut таай (taay). Akin to Persian دایی (dâyi) and تغایی (tağāyī), both Turkic borrowings.
Noun
دایی • (dayı) (definite accusative داییی (dayıyı), plural داییلر (dayılar))
- maternal uncle, the brother of one's mother, thus a second-degree relative
- Synonym: خال (hal) — literary
- (historical) dey, the ruler of the Regency of Algiers under the Ottoman Empire
Coordinate terms
- تیزه (teyze, “maternal aunt”)
- خاله (hala, “paternal aunt”)
- عموجه (ʼamuca, “paternal uncle”)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 729
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dayı3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1119
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دایی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 219a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دایی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 565
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Avunculus”, 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 110
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دایی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2019
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dayı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دایی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 887
Persian
Etymology
A Turkic borrowing: compare Turkish dayı, Azerbaijani dayı.[1][2]
Pronunciation
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| Iranian reading?
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dâyi
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Noun
| Dari
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ماما
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| Iranian Persian
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دایی
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| Tajik
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тағо
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دایی • (dâyi)
- (chiefly Iran) maternal uncle (mother's brother)
- Synonym: (Dari) ماما (mâmâ)
- Coordinate terms: عمو ('amu), کاکا (kâkâ), کاکو (kâko)
Descendants
See also
- عمه ('amme) (paternal aunt)
- خاله (xâle) (maternal aunt)
References
- ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16) (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1176, page 196
- ^ Hassandoust, Mohammad (2004/2005) Bahman Sarkarati, editor, Farhang-e riše-šenâxti-ye zabân-e Farsi [An Etymological Dictionary of the Persian Language] (in Persian), volume II: P-D, Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature, →ISBN, page 1264
Further reading