ایكیز

Ottoman Turkish

ایكیزلر

Alternative forms

• اكز (ikiz), ایكز (ikiz)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)iŕ (“twin”); cognate with Azerbaijani əkiz, Bashkir игеҙәк (igeźək), Chuvash йӗкӗреш (jĕk̬ĕreš), Kazakh егіз (egız), Kyrgyz эгиз (egiz), Turkmen ekiz and Uzbek egizak.

Noun

ایكیز • (ikiz)

1. twin, either of two people who shared the same uterus at the same time

   Synonym: توام (tevem)

2. (in general) anything disposed in twin parts, a pair of identical things

Derived terms

• ایكیزلو (ikizli, “possessed of twins”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ikiz
• → Armenian: էքիզ (ēkʻiz), էկիզ (ēkiz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ikiz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2126
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ایكیز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 95a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایكیز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 222
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gemellus”, 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 641
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایكیز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 603
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ikiz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایكیز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 302