سیوری

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سوری (sivri)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sībri (“sharp, sharp-edged”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (süvri), Azerbaijani sivri, Crimean Tatar sivri, Kazakh сүйір (süiır), Kyrgyz сүйрү (süyrü), Southern Altai сӱӱрӱ (süürü, “sharp”), Turkmen süýri and Yakut үөрбэ (üörbe).

Adjective

سیوری • (sivri)

1. sharp-pointed, tapering, conical

   Synonym: موسل (mussel)

Derived terms

• سیورلتمك (sivriltmek, “to make or let become sharp-pointed”)
• سیورلمك (sivrilmek, “to be or become sharp-pointed”)
• سیوری باشلو (sivri başlı, “conical; obstinate”)
• سیوری سیڭك (sivri siñek, “mosquito”)
• سیوری صیچان (sivri sıçan, “shrew”)
• سیوری عقللو (sivri ʾakıllu, “of a sharp mind”)
• سیوریلك (sivrilik, “sharp-pointedness”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sivri
• → Armenian: սիվրի (sivri)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sivri”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4268
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سوری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 278b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیوری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 711
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Acutus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 17
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سوری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2706
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sivri”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیوری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1105