صوی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *soy (“race, lineage”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (soy).

Noun

صوی • (soy)

1. sort, kind, type, variety, a group of entities that have common characteristics or qualities

   Synonyms: جنس (cins), چشید (çeşid)

2. race, breed, strain, a group of people distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics

   Synonyms: صوپ (sop), نسل (nesl)

3. lineage, ancestry, stock, descent, the descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage

   Synonyms: ذریت (zürriyet), نسل (nesl)

Derived terms

• صوی صوپ (soy sop, “relatives”)
• صویسز (soysız, “worthless; degenerate”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: soy
• → Albanian: soj
• → Armenian: սոյ (soy)
• → Macedonian: сој (soj)
• → Romanian: soi
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: со̏ј

  Latin script: sȍj

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “soy2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4305
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صوی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 305b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 775
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stirps”, 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 1599
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3013
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “soy”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1196