دوه

Ottoman Turkish

دوه

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tebe; cognate with Azerbaijani dəvə, Bashkir дөйә (döyə), Chuvash тӗве (tĕve), Kazakh түйе (tüie), Kyrgyz төө (töö), Turkmen düýe, Uyghur تۆگە (töge) and Uzbek tuya.

Noun

دوه • (deve)

1. camel, any beast of burden of the genus Camelus

   Synonym: شتر (şütür)

   • 1892 April 9, معارف [ma'arif, Knowledge]‎^[1], tarih-i tabii [Natural History], page 205:

     آسیا و آفریقانك غیر مثمر اقالیمی اهالیسی ایچون اڭ ذیقیمت حیوان دوه‌در.

     asya ve afrikanıñ gayri müsmir ekalimi ahalisi için eñ zikıymet heyvan devedir.

     The most precious animal for the people of Asia and Africa's inhospitable climates is the camel.

Derived terms

• دوه الماسی (deve elması, “sea holly”)
• دوه توكی (deve tüyü, “camel-hair”)
• دوه دیكنی (deve dikeni, “camelthorn”)
• دوه طبانی (deve tabani, “sunflower”)
• دوه قوشی (deve kuşu, “ostrich”)
• دوه‌جی (deveci, “camel-owner”)
• دوه‌لی (develi, “that has camels”)

Descendants

• Gagauz: devä
• Turkish: deve
  • → Zazaki: deva
• → Albanian: deve
• → Armenian: դավա (dava)
• → Northern Kurdish: deve
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: дева

  Latin script: deva

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “deve”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1185
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 593
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Camelus”, 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 139
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 2195–2196
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “deve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 929

Pashto

Pashto cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : دوه

Etymology

From Proto-Pathan *dwa, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *dwa, from Proto-Iranian *dwáH (compare Persian دو (do), Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬎𐬀 (duua)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dwáH (compare Sanskrit द्व (dvá), Hindi दो / Urdu دو (do), Punjabi دو / ਦੋ (do)), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (compare Russian два (dva), Lithuanian du, Greek δύο (dýo), Spanish dos, English two).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dwa/

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Noun

دوه • (dwa)

1. two