قیی

Ottoman Turkish

قیی

Alternative forms

• قی (kyı), قییی (kıyı)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kïdïg.

Noun

قیی • (kıyı)

1. shore or coast and the water adjoining it

   Synonyms: یالی (yalı), قیراك (kırañ)

2. edge, side, border, of a thing

   Synonyms: كنار (kenar), لب (leb), قیراك (kırañ)

3. immediate vicinity of a thing
4. place at some distance from a thing

Derived terms

• قییجی (kıyıcı, “frequenter of the seashore”)
• قیین (kıyın, “along the shore”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kıyı
• → Armenian: խըյի (xəyi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kıyı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2650
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1002
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Littus”, 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 962
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قیی”, 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–) “kıyı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1514