خوی

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See also: جوي, حوي, خوى, حوى, جوی, and خۆی

Persian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠xwēy⁠/, sweat, perspiration) from Proto-Iranian *hwáydah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swáydas (sweat), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swóyd-o-s from the root *sweyd- (sweat, to sweat). Cognate with Baluchi ہید (hed) and English sweat. Doublet of خوید.

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? xway
Dari reading? xuy
Iranian reading? xoy
Tajik reading? xuy

Noun[edit]

خوی (xway) (archaic)

  1. sweat
    Synonym: عرق ('araq)
  2. sown field, acre, meadow (cf. خوید (xwêd))
  3. herbage just sprouting above the ground
  4. saddle-cloth, or dorsers below the saddle

Etymology 2[edit]

Compare Old Armenian խոյր (xoyr), Persian خود (xôd).

Noun[edit]

خوی (xôy)

  1. (obsolete) helmet

Etymology 3[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun[edit]

خوی (xôy)

  1. Khoy (a city in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran)
  2. Khoy County (a county of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran)

Etymology 4[edit]

Otherwise خو (). Cognate to Sanskrit स्वधा (svadhā)

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? xōy
Dari reading? xōy
Iranian reading? xuy
Tajik reading? xüy

Noun[edit]

خوی (xôy) (literary)

  1. custom, wont
  2. humour, nature, habit

References[edit]

  • Müller, Friedrich (1894), “Pahlawi und neupersische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 8, pages 188–189
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “خوی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 489b
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855), “خوی”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 764a