كبی

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Proto-Turkic *kēpi.

Postposition

كِبِی or كَبِی • (gibi or gebi)

1. like, similar to
2. such as, like

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: kimi
• Gagauz: gibi
• Ottoman Turkish: گبی (gibi), گبین (gibin)
  • Turkish: gibi

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• گبین (gibin)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish كِبِی (gibi), from Proto-Turkic *kēpi (“like”).

Postposition

گبی • (gibi)

1. like

Descendants

• Turkish: gibi

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كبی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1010a
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “gibi”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN