كنایه
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic كِنَايَة (kināya, “metaphor; allusion”).
Noun
[edit]كنایه • (kinâye) (definite accusative كنایهیی (kinâyeyi), plural كنایات (kinâyât))
- allusion, hint, an indirect reference to something which is not explicitly mentioned
- innuendo, insinuation, any derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing
- (rhetoric) figure of speech, a word or phrase that deviates from ordinary language
Derived terms
[edit]- كنایه اولمق (kinâye olmak, “to be an allusion, hint”)
- كنایه ایتمك (kinâye etmek, “to hint, allude”)
- كنایه سویلهمك (kinâye söylemek, “to speak by a hint”)
- كنایهلی (kinâyeli, “indirect, allusive”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kinaye
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كنایه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 648
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kinaye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2675
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “kinâye”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 623
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كنایه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1043
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Allusio”, 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 51
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كنایة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4029
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kinaye”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كنایه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1574