كدی
Appearance
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]Probably from Byzantine Greek γατί (gatí, “kitten”), but see note at Old Armenian կատու (katu).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]كدی • (kedi) (definite accusative كدییی (kediyi), plural كدیلر (kediler))
- cat, any common house pet of the species Felis catus
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- آنقره كدیسی (Ankara kedisi, “Angora cat”)
- بوز كدی (boz kedi, “tabby”)
- تكیر كدی (tekir kedi, “tortoise-shell cat”)
- طاغ كدیسی (dağ kedisi, “jungle cat, chaus”)
- كدی اوتی (kedi otu, “valerian”)
- كدی بالغی (kedi balığı, “ray”)
- كدی قایناغی (kedi kaynağı, “immortelle”)
- كدی كوركی (kedi kürkü, “catskin fur”)
- كول كدیسی (kül kedisi, “lazy fellow”, literally “ash cat”)
- مسك كدیسی (misk kedisi, “civet cat”)
- یابان كدیسی (yaban kedisi, “wild cat”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kedi
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كدی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 617
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kedi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2517
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كدی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 385b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كدی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1017
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Felis”, 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 560
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كدی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3893
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kedi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كدی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1531