قنی

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Old Anatolian Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kańu, a derivation from Proto-Turkic *ka-

Adverb

قنی (qanı)

  1. (interrogative) where
    • 14th Century, anonymous author, Dresden Manuscript: Kitāb-ı Dedem Ḳorḳud Alā Lisān-ı Tāife-i Oġuzān:
      قنی اول دیدكم یك ارنلر
      دنیا منم دینلر
      آنلر دخی كلدی كچدی
      كروان كبی قوندی كوچدی
      آنلری دخی اجل آلدی ییر كزلدی
      فانی دنیا كمه قالدی
      qanı ol dedügüm yäg äränlär?
      dünyā mänüm deyänlär
      anlar daḫı gäldi gäçdi
      kärvān gibi qondı göçdi
      anları daḫı äcäl aldı, yer gizlädi
      fānī dünyā kimä qaldı?
      now where are those men that I praised?
      those who said "world is mine"
      they too came and passed by
      arrived and departed like a caravan
      death too took them, ground hid them
      to whom is the mortal world left?

Descendants

Further reading

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hani”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “qanı”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 219
  • “kanı”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977

Ottoman Turkish

Adverb

قنی (kanı, hanı, hani)

  1. alternative form of قانی (kanı, hanı, hani, where)