قاو
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from both Proto-Turkic *kiab (“tree fungus; dry grass”)[1] and *k(i)ab (“peeled skin, to peel”).[2] Cognate with Azerbaijani qov and Yakut кыа (kıa).
Noun
[edit]قاو • (kav)
- tinder, punk, touchwood, any material used to light fires, but especially decayed wood
- slough, the skin shed by a snake or other reptile when the old skin is outgrown
- Synonyms: سلخ (selh), ییلان قاوی (yılan kavı)
Derived terms
[edit]- آرناود قاوی (arnavud kavı, “tinder made of rags”)
- قاو مانطاری (kav mantarı, “amadou”)
- قاو چاقماق (kav çakmak, “tinder and a flint”)
- قاو گبی (kav gibi, “soft, very light”)
- قاوجی (kavcı, “maker or seller of touchwood”)
- قاولق (kavlık, “anything fit for conversion into tinder”)
- قاولو (kavlı, “furnished with tinder”)
- ییلان قاوی (yılan kavı, “slough”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kiab”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*k(i)ab”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kav2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2476
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قاو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 353b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 939
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fomes”, 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 599
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3602
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kav”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1426