قیا

Ottoman Turkish

قیا

Alternative forms

• قایا (kaya)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *k(i)aya (“rock, mountain”); cognate with Azerbaijani qaya, Bashkir ҡая (qaya), Tatar кыя (qıya), Turkmen gaýa, Uzbek qoya and Yakut хайа (qaya).

Noun

قیا • (kaya)

1. rock, boulder, a large mass of stone
2. cliff, precipice, a vertical rock face

   Synonyms: اوچرم (uçurum), یار (yar)

3. reef, a chain of rocks lying at the surface of the water

Derived terms

• قیا باشی (kaya başı, “top of a rocky cliff”)
• قیا بالغی (kaya balığı, “goby, gudgeon”)
• قیا قوروغی (kaya koruğu, “houseleek”)
• قیا كلری (kaya keleri, “chameleon”)
• قیا لیفی (kaya lifi, “asbestos”)
• قیا یاروغی (kaya yaruği, “cave, cavern”)
• قیالق (kayalık, “rocky”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kaya

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaya1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2488
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 995
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rupes”, 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 1496
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قیا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3815
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1504