قایش
See also: قايس
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *k(i)adɨ- (“leather belt”).[1]
Noun
قایش • (kayış)
- belt
- Synonyms: قوشاق (kuşak), كمر (kemer), منطقه (minteke), نطاق (nitak)
- thong, slip
Descendants
- Turkish: kayış
- → Albanian: kaish
- → Armenian: ղայիշ (łayiš), խայիշ (xayiš), կայիշ (kayiš)
- → Aromanian: cãishe
- → Bulgarian: каи́ш (kaíš)
- → Macedonian: каиш (kaiš)
- → Romanian: căiuș, caiuș
- → Serbo-Croatian: ка̀јиш, ка̀иш
References
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*k(i)adɨ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill