كونیه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Greek γωνία (gonía), from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía). Compare Persian گونیا.

Noun

گونیه • (günye, gönye)

  1. carpenter's square, set square, angle measure

Descendants

  • Turkish: gönye
  • → Azerbaijani: günya
  • → Romanian: ghiunie
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ђу̀нија
    Latin script: đùnija

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كونیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1062
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كونیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1607
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “كونیه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 780
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