یمنی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic يَمَنِيّ (yamaniyy, “Yemeni”). By surface analysis, یمن (Yemen, “Yemen”) + ـی (-î, nisba suffix).
Adjective
[edit]یمنی • (yemeni)
Noun
[edit]یمنی • (yemeni)
- kind of handpainted pocket handkerchief made of cotton, originally from Yemen
- kind of light men's shoe with a short heel, made of yellow or black Moroccan leather
Derived terms
[edit]- یمنیجی (yemenici, “maker of pocket handkerchiefs”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 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