ایكیز
Appearance
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)iŕ (“twin”); cognate with Azerbaijani əkiz, Bashkir игеҙәк (igeźək), Chuvash йӗкӗреш (jĕk̬ĕreš), Kazakh егіз (egız), Kyrgyz эгиз (egiz), Turkmen ekiz and Uzbek egizak.
Noun
[edit]ایكیز • (ikiz)
- twin, either of two people who shared the same uterus at the same time
- Synonym: توام (tevem)
- (in general) anything disposed in twin parts, a pair of identical things
Derived terms
[edit]- ایكیزلو (ikizli, “possessed of twins”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ikiz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2126
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ایكیز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 95a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایكیز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 222
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gemellus”, 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 641
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایكیز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 603
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ikiz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایكیز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 302