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))

  1. maternal uncle, the brother of one's mother, thus a second-degree relative
    Synonym: خال (hal)literary
  2. (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:
    Cyrillic script: да̀иџа
    Latin script: dàidža

Further reading

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

A Turkic borrowing: compare Turkish dayı, Azerbaijani dayı.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Readings
Iranian reading? dâyi
  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Noun

Dari ماما
Iranian Persian دایی
Tajik тағо

دایی • (dâyi)

  1. (chiefly Iran) maternal uncle (mother's brother)
    Synonym: (Dari) ماما (mâmâ)
    Coordinate terms: عمو ('amu), کاکا (kâkâ), کاکو (kâko)

Descendants

See also

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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