قویون

Ottoman Turkish

قویون

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *koyn, variant of *koń (“sheep”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰸𐰆𐰪 (q̊¹uń /⁠koń⁠/), Azerbaijani qoyun, Kazakh қой (qoi), Kyrgyz кой (koy), Tatar қуй, Turkmen goýun, Uyghur قوي (qoy) and Uzbek qo'y.

Alternative forms

• قوین (koyun)

Noun

قویون • (koyun)

1. sheep, a ruminant in the genus Ovis

   Synonyms: شات (şat), گوسفند (gusfend), میش (miş)

Derived terms

• دكز قویونی (deñiz koyunu, “fur seal”)
• قزل قویون (kızıl koyun, “kind of light-brown wooled sheep”)
• قویون اتی (koyun eti, “mutton”)
• قویون اوتی (koyun otu, “agrimony”)
• قویون قیران (koyun kıran, “rose of Sharon”)
• قویون گوزلو (koyun gözlü, “blue or green eyed”)
• قویون گوزی (koyun gözü, “common feverfew”)
• قویون ییلی (koyun yılı, “year of the sheep”)
• قویونلو (koyunlu, “possessed of sheep”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: koyun
• Turkish: koyun
• → Armenian: խոյին (xoyin)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “koyun1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2768
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “koyun”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 254b
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 379a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قویون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 994
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ovis”, 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 1229
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوین”, 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–) “koyun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قویون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1503

Etymology 2

Adverb

قویون • (koyun)

1. Alternative form of قویین (koyun, “downwardly”)

Further reading

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• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قویون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1503

Etymology 3

Noun

قویون • (koyn)

1. Alternative form of قوین (koyn, “chest”)

Further reading

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• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قویون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 995
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قویون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1503