مناو
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. According to Mollova, borrowed from Arabic مِنْيَاوِيّ (minyāwiyy, “someone from Minya, Egypt”).
Noun
[edit]مناو • (manav)
- fruitmonger, greengrocer
- Synonym: (obsolete) بقال (bakkal)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: manav
- → Armenian: մանավ (manav)
- → Aromanian: manafi, manafeanj
- → Bulgarian: манаф (manaf), ⇒ мана́фин (manáfin)
- → Greek: μανάβης (manávis)
- → Persian: مناو (manāv)
References
[edit]- Mollova, Mefküre (1964) “Относно ориенталските заемки в “Български тълковен речник” [About Oriental loanwords in the Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary]”, in Български език (in Bulgarian), volume 6, page 536b of 534–539
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21)[1] (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1738, page 22