مایه

See also: مائة and مايه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian مایه (mâye, “origin, source”).

Noun

مایه • (maye)

1. origin, basis, fundament, source

   Synonym: آصل (asıl)

2. fund, the capital stock of a business
3. riches, the wealth of a man

   Synonyms: ثروت (servet), سرمایه (sermaye)

Derived terms

• سرمایه (sermaye, “fund, capital”)
• مایه‌دار (mayedar, “who has a principle or capital”)
• مایه‌سز (mayesız, “lacking capital or value”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: maye

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “maye1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3086
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مایه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1098
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مایه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 4262
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مایه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1664

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian مایه (mâye, “leaven, yeast”).

مایه

Noun

مایه • (maya)

1. leaven, yeast, any agent used to make dough rise
2. brood beast, a female animal kept for fecundation

Derived terms

• مایه آغاجی (maya ağacı, “oil palm”)
• مایه‌سز (mayasız, “unleavened”)
• مایه‌لاتمق (mayalatmak, “to make ferment”)
• مایه‌لاندرمق (mayalandırmak, “to make or let become leaven”)
• مایه‌لانمق (mayalanmak, “to ferment”)
• مایه‌لی (mayalı, “yeasty”)
• پنیر مایه‌سی (penir mayası, “rennet”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: maya
• → Armenian: մայա (maya)
• → Bulgarian: мая́ (majá)
• → Greek: μαγιά (magiá)
• → Macedonian: маја (maja)
• → Romanian: maia
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ма̀ја

  Latin script: màja

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “maya1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3085
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مایه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1098
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fermentum”, 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^[5], Vienna, column 564
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مایه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[6], Vienna, column 4262
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “maya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مایه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1665

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian mʾtk' (mādag, “essence, substance”). Compare Manichaean Middle Persian mʾyg (māyag).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ˈja]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.jǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.jǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.jǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.jǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mɒː.jé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɔ.jǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	māya
Dari reading?	māya
Iranian reading?	mâye
Tajik reading?	moya

Noun

مایه • (mâye)

1. stuff, matter, substance, essence
2. leaven, yeast, batter
3. origin, source, basis, cause
4. vaccine

Derived terms

• بن‌مایه (bon-mâye)
• پرمایه (pormâye)
• سرمایه (sarmâye)
• فرومایه (forumâye)
• دستمایه (dastmâye)
• گرانمایه (gerânmâye)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: maya

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “mādag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press