اویا

See also: اويا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اویه (oya)

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek ούγια (oúgia, “sheepskin; fringe, edge”), from Ancient Greek ᾤα (ṓia, “sheepskin; border, fringe of a garment”).

Noun

اویا • (oya)

1. pinking, any kind of needlework or embroidery with scalloped edges made as a border or insertion

Derived terms

• اویاجی (oyacı, “pinking embroiderer”)
• اویالاتمق (oyalatmak, “to make or let loiter”)
• اویالامق (oyalamak, “to pink, embroider”)
• اویالاندرمق (oyalandırmak, “to make or let loiter”)
• اویالانمق (oyalanmak, “to loiter and waste time”)
• اویالی (oyalı, “decorated with pinkings”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: oya
• → Albanian: ojë
• → Bulgarian: оя (oja)
• → Macedonian: оја (oja)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: оја

  Latin script: oja

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oya1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3654
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اویا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 205
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, J. W. (1884) “pinking”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 578
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اویا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 272
• Tietze, Andreas (2002, 2009) “oya”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume VI, Istanbul, Vienna, page 184