گوزگی

Ottoman Turkish

گوزگی

Alternative forms

• گوزگو (gözgü)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *küzŋü (“mirror”), a development of *köŕ (“eye”); cognate with Azerbaijani güzgü, Bashkir көҙгө (köźgö), Kyrgyz күзгү (küzgü), Old Uyghur 𐰚𐰇𐰔𐰭𐰇 (küzŋü/közŋü), Southern Altai кӱскӱ (küskü) and Tatar көзге (közge).

Noun

گوزگی • (gözgü)

1. mirror, a surface usually made of glass, that reflects light

   Synonyms: آینه (ayna), مرآت (mirʾat)

Descendants

• Turkish: gözgü

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gözgü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1773
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “گوزگی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 401b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “گوزگی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1052
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Speculum”, 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 1581
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گوزگی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4073
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gözgü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گوزگی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1592