عنكبوتی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عَنْكَبُوتِيّ (ʕankabūtiyy). By surface analysis, عنكبوت (ʿankebut) + ـی (-î, nisba suffix).
Adjective
عنكبوتی • (ʿankebutî)
- pertaining to the spider, spiderlike, arachnoid
Descendants
- Turkish: ankebutî
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ankebutî”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 256
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عنكبوتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 863
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عنكبوتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1325