كوی

See also: كوى, گوی, and کوی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from Proto-Turkic *kon-, *ko- (“to put”), whence قونمق (konmak, “to settle, perch”) and قومق (komak, “to put”). Alternatively, Nişanian proposes a derivation from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwd /⁠kōy⁠/, “lane, street”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /cøj/
  • (Western Western Rumelia often) IPA(key): /co̞j/

Noun

كوی • (köy)

  1. village, a rural settlement of size between a hamlet and a town
    Synonyms: ده (dıh), قریه (karye), كنت (kent)
  2. countryside, a rural area located outside of towns and cities

Derived terms
  • خاصكوی (Hasköy, “a city in Bulgaria”)
  • كویلك (köylük, “quality of a village”)
  • كویلو (köylü, “villager”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: köy
  • → Crimean Tatar: köy

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “köy”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2807
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 406a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1062
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pagus”, 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, Vienna, column 1133
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4099
  • Németh, Julius (1961) “Traces of the Turkish language in Albania”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎, volume 13, number 1/2, page 21
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “köy”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1608
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