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^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 406a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, column 4099
• Németh, Julius (1961) “Traces of the Turkish language in Albania”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎^[5], 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^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1608