إسكدنيا

Arabic

Alternative forms

• أَسْكِيدُنْيَا (ʔaskīdunyā), إِسْكِيدُنْيَا (ʔiskīdunyā), إِكِّدُنْيَا (ʔikkidunyā), أَكِدُنْيَا (ʔakidunyā), إِيكِّيدُنْيَا (ʔīkkīdunyā), إِكِّيدُنْيَا (ʔikkīdunyā), and written apart

Etymology

Paradoxically, it is not called in Turkish **eski dünya but yeni dünya / یڭی دنیا (a meaning also widespread in the Arabic يَنْكِي دُنْيَا (yangī dunyā) by the middle of the twentieth century). In إِسْكِدُنْيَا (ʔiskidunyā), the first half is in fact the Persian borrowing ازگیل / ezgil (“medlar”). And the second half also, دنیا / dünya (“world”) being a reinterpretation of دنگل (döngel, düngel, “medlar”), which is the same word blended with the stem of دونمك / dönmek (“to turn around”) based on the fruit’s round form.

Noun

إِسْكِدُنْيَا • (ʔiskidunyā) f

1. medlar, loquat and what looks like it of fruits and fruit-trees

   Synonym: مُشْمُلَة (mušmula)

Declension

Declension of noun إِسْكِدُنْيَا (ʔiskidunyā)

Singular	singular invariable
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِسْكِدُنْيَا ʔiskidunyā	الْإِسْكِدُنْيَا al-ʔiskidunyā	إِسْكِدُنْيَا ʔiskidunyā
Nominative	إِسْكِدُنْيَا ʔiskidunyā	الْإِسْكِدُنْيَا al-ʔiskidunyā	إِسْكِدُنْيَا ʔiskidunyā
Accusative	إِسْكِدُنْيَا ʔiskidunyā	الْإِسْكِدُنْيَا al-ʔiskidunyā	إِسْكِدُنْيَا ʔiskidunyā
Genitive	إِسْكِدُنْيَا ʔiskidunyā	الْإِسْكِدُنْيَا al-ʔiskidunyā	إِسْكِدُنْيَا ʔiskidunyā