دایی
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- دای (dayı), طایی (dayı)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tāy, *dāj (“maternal uncle”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tay, tagay), Azerbaijani dayı, Kyrgyz тай (tay), Southern Altai таай (taay), Turkmen daýy and Yakut таай (taay). Akin to Persian دایی (dâyi) and تغایی (taġāyī), 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
Derived terms
- قبا دایی (kaba dayı, “bully”)
Descendants
- Turkish: dayı
- → Albanian: dajë
- → Armenian: տայի (tayi), դայի (dayi)
- → French: dey
- → Laz: დაჲი (dayi)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
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[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 219a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دایی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3] (in French), 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[4], 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[5], Vienna, column 2019
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dayı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دایی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 887
Persian
Alternative forms
- دائی (dâ'i), دای (dây)
Etymology
A Turkic borrowing: compare Turkish dayı, Azerbaijani dayı.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ɒː.jíː]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Iranian reading? | dâyi |
Audio (Iran): (file)
Noun
دایی • (dâyi)
- (chiefly Iran) maternal uncle (mother's brother)
Descendants
- → Khalaj: dâyı
See also
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)[1] (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
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “دایی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press