استوا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِسْتِوَاء (istiwāʔ, “equality, levelness”), verbal noun of اِسْتَوَى (⁧istawā⁩, “to be or become equal, flat, or plain”).

Noun

استوا • (istiva)

1. equality, uniformity, levelness, the fact of being equal

   Synonym: دوزلك (düzlük)

2. straightness, the result or product of being straight
3. perpendicularity, the condition of being perpendicular
4. maturity, full-grownness, the quality of being mature

Derived terms

• خط استوا (hat-ı istiva, “equator”)

Descendants

• Turkish: istiva

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “istiva”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2245
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “istivâ”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 556
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “استوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 86
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “استوا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 206
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “istiva”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “استوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 105