قوطی

See also: قوطي

Ottoman Turkish

قوطی

Alternative forms

• قوتی (kutu, kutı), قوطو (kutu, kutı), قوتو (kutu, kutı)

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek κουτί (koutí, “box, caddy”), from Ancient Greek κυτίον (kutíon), diminutive of κύτος (kútos, “hollow; vessel”).

Noun

قوطی • (kutu or kutı) (definite accusative قوطیی (kutuyu, kutıyı), plural قوطیلر (kutular, kutılar))

1. box, case

   Synonym: صندوق (sandık, sanduk)

Derived terms

• حلالی قوطی (halali kutu, “kind of bag”)
• دیكیش قوطیسی (dikiş kutusu, “lady's workbox”)
• فساد قوطیسی (fesâd kutusu, “intriguer”)
• قوطی انجیری (kutu inciri, “figs packed in drums”)
• قوطی كبی (kutu gibi, “small and cozy (of a house)”)
• قوطیجی (kutucu, “boxmaker”)
• كبریت قوطیسی (kibrit kutusu, “matchbox”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kutu
• → Albanian: kuti
• → Aromanian: cutíe
• → Bulgarian: кути́я (kutíja)
• → Georgian: ყუთი (q̇uti)
• → Gulf Arabic: قوطي (gūṭi)
• → Macedonian: кутија (kutija)
• → Middle Armenian: ղութի (ġutʻi), ղուդի (ġudi)
  • Armenian: ղութի (ġutʻi), խութի (xutʻi), կութի (kutʻi)
• → Persian: قوطی (quti)
• → Romanian: cutie
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ку̀тија

  Latin script: kùtija

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “قوطی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 566
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kutu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2868
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “قوطی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 375b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قوطی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 984b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Pyxis”, 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 1414
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قوطی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3797
• Meyer, Gustav (1893), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 50
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kutu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قوطی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1489

Persian

Alternative forms

• قوتی (quti), قتی (qoti), قطی (qoti)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قوطی (kutu, kutı), from Greek κουτί (koutí).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /quː.ˈtiː/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [quː.t̪ʰiː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [quː.t̪ʰiː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [quː.t̪ʰiː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qu.t̪ʰi]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [quː.t̪ʰiː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qu.t̪ʰi]

Readings
Classical reading?	qūtī
Dari reading?	qūtī
Iranian reading?	ġuti
Tajik reading?	quti

Noun

قوطی • (qūtī / ġuti) (plural قوطی‌ها (qūtī-hā / ġuti-hâ), Tajik spelling қутӣ)

1. box

Urdu

قوطی جنگجو ― qūtī jangjū ― Gothic warriors

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قوطي (qūṭiyy, “Gothic”)

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /quː.t̪iː/

Adjective

قوطی • (qūtī) (Hindi spelling क़ूती)

1. Gothic, of or pertaining to Goths

   Synonym: گوتھک (gauthik)

   ہَسپانِیَہ کی قُوطی راج فاتَح مسلمان خِلافَت نے خَتم کِیا

   haspāniya kā qūtī rāj musalmān xilāfat ne xatm kiyā

   the Gothic reign of Spain was brought to an end by the Muslim Caliphate

Noun

قوطی • (qūtī) m or f (Hindi spelling क़ूती)

1. a Goth; an East Germanic people who played a major role in the destruction of the Roman Empire

Derived terms

• قُوطِی رَسْمُ الخَط (qūtī rasm-ul-xat, “Gothic script”)

Related terms

• قوط (qūt, “Gothic nation”)
• گوتھ (gauth, “Goth”)

References

• “قوطی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “قوطی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “قوطی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “قوطی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.