كوف

Ottoman Turkish

كوف

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kebü (“rot, dandruff”); cognate with Azerbaijani kif, Crimean Tatar küf, Karakhanid [script needed] (küviǯ) and Kipchak [script needed] (küf).

Noun

كوف • (küf)

1. mold, mildew, a woolly or furry growth of fungi on organic material

Derived terms

• كوف باغلامق (küf bağlamak, “to become moldy”)
• كوف قوقمق (küf kokmak, “to stink of mold”)
• كوفلتمك (küfletmek, “to make moldy”)
• كوفلندرمك (küflendirmek, “to make or let become moldy”)
• كوفلنمك (küflenmek, “to grow moldy”)
• كوفلی (küflü, “moldy”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: küf
• → Armenian: քիւֆ (kʻiwf)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “küf2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2883
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1055
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mucor”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1091
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4084
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “küf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1596