اینجو
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]- (later) اینجی (inci)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Common Turkic *yinǯü, ultimately from Middle Chinese 珍珠 (MC trin tsyu) ~ 眞珠 (MC tsyin tsyu, “genuine pearl”). Cognate with Azerbaijani inci, Bashkir ынйы (ınyı), Kazakh інжу (ınju), Tatar энҗе (ence), Turkmen hünji and Uzbek inju.
Noun
[edit]اینجو • (inci, incü)
- pearl, a shelly and rounded concretion produced by certain mollusks
Derived terms
[edit]- اینجو دانهسی (inci tanesi, “single pearl”)
- اینجو چیچكی (inci çiçeği, “lily of the valley”)
- اینجوجی (incici, “dealer in pearls”)
- اینجولو (incili, “set with pearls”)
- یالانجی اینجو (yalancı inci, “false pearl”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “inci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2171
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اینجو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 227
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Margarita”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1011
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اینجو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 615
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “inci”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اینجو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 309
- Tekin, Talat (1997). "Notes on some Chinese Loanwords in Old Turkic", Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları, 7, pp. 165-173.