یمنی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يَمَنِيّ (yamaniyy, “Yemeni”). By surface analysis, یمن (Yemen, “Yemen”) +‎ ـی (-î, nisba suffix).

Adjective

یمنی • (yemeni)

1. Yemeni, of, from, or pertaining to Yemen, or the Yemeni people

Noun

یمنی • (yemeni)

1. kind of handpainted pocket handkerchief made of cotton, originally from Yemen
2. kind of light men's shoe with a short heel, made of yellow or black Moroccan leather

Derived terms

• یمنیجی (yemenici, “maker of pocket handkerchiefs”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yemeni
• → Greek: γεμενί (gemení)
• → Romanian: iminei

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yemeni”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5286
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یمنی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1359
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یمنی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 5609
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yemeni”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یمنی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2210