دوه

دوه

Ottoman Turkish

دوه

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tebe; cognate with Azerbaijani dəvə, Bashkir дөйә (döyä), Chuvash тӗве (tĕve), Kazakh түйе (tüie), Kyrgyz төө (töö), Turkmen düýe, Uyghur تۆگە‎ (töge) and Uzbek tuya.

Noun

دوه • (deve)

1. camel, any beast of burden of the genus Camelus

   Synonym: شتر‎ (şütür)

Derived terms

• دوه الماسی‎ (deve elması, “sea holly”)
• دوه توكی‎ (deve tüyü, “camel-hair”)
• دوه دیكنی‎ (deve dikeni, “camelthorn”)
• دوه طبانی‎ (deve tabani, “sunflower”)
• دوه قوشی‎ (deve kuşu, “ostrich”)
• دوه‌جی‎ (deveci, “camel-owner”)
• دوه‌لی‎ (develi, “that has camels”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: devä
• Turkish: deve
  • → Zazaki: deva
• → Albanian: deve
• → Armenian: դավա (dava)
• → Northern Kurdish: deve
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дева

  Latin: deva

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “deve”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1185
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 593
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Camelus”, 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 139
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2195–2196
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “deve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 929

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Pashto

Pashto cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : دوه

Etymology

From Proto-Pathan *dwa, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *dwa[1], from Proto-Iranian *dwáH (compare Persian دو‎ (do), Pashto دوه‎ (dwa), Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬎𐬀‎ (duua)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dwáH (compare Sanskrit द्व (dvá), Hindi दो (do)/Urdu دو‎ (do), Punjabi ਦੋ (do)), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (compare Russian два (dva), Lithuanian du, Greek δύο (dýo), Spanish dos, English two).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dwa/

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Noun

دوه • (dwa)

1. two

References

1. Julian Kreidl (2021), “Lambdacism and the development of Old Iranian *t in Pashto”, in Iran and the Caucasus