قیو
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kudug (“well”); cognate with Azerbaijani quyu, Bashkir ҡоҙоҡ (qoźoq), Kazakh құдық (qūdyq), Kyrgyz кудук (kuduk), Tatar кое (qoye), Turkmen guýy, Uyghur قۇدۇق (quduq), Uzbek quduq and Yakut кудук (kuduk).
Noun[edit]
قیو • (kuyu)
- well, a hole sunk into the ground as a source of water or other fluids
- shaft, pit, a vertical passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine
Derived terms[edit]
- زنجیرلو قیو (zincirli kuyu, “well worked by a well-sweep and chain”)
- قار قیوسی (kar kuyusu, “snowpit”)
- قیو صویی (kuyu suyu, “hard water”)
- قیو قازمق (kuyu kazmak, “to work against someone”)
- قیو كناری (kuyu kenarı, “stone forming the edge of a well”)
- قیو گبی (kuyu gibi, “gloomy, dark”)
- قیوجق (kuyucuk, “little well or pit”)
- قیوجی (kuyucu, “well-digger”)
- كیرچ قیوسی (kireç kuyusu, “pit into which lime is run”)
- لغم قیوسی (lağım kuyusu, “sinkhole to a sewer”)
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuyu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2875
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قویی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 379a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 994
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Puteus”, 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 1412
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قویی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3812
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kuyu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1510