gəmi

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Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic ҝəми
Abjad گەمی

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *gẹ̄mi (boat)[1]. Cognate with Crimean Tatar and Turkish gemi, Chuvash кимӗ (kimĕ) etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡæˈmi], [d͡ʒæˈmi]
  • Hyphenation: gə‧mi

Noun

gəmi (definite accusative gəmini, plural gəmilər)

  1. ship
    nicat gəmisi
    the boat of salvation
    (a frequent metaphor of Husayn ibn Ali in Shia discourse)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gẹ̄mi”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill