كدی
See also: کدی and كدى
Ottoman Turkish
كدی
Etymology
Probably from Byzantine Greek γατί (gatí, “kitten”), but see note at Old Armenian կատու (katu)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /cɛˈdi/
Noun
كدی • (kedi) (definite accusative كدییی (kediyi), plural كدیلر (kediler))
- cat, a common house pet (Felis catus)
- Synonyms: پسك (pisik), قط (kitt), گربه (gürbe), هر (hirr)
Derived terms
- آنقره كدیسی (ankara kedisi, “Angora cat”)
- بوز كدی (boz kedi, “tabby cat”)
- طاغ كدیسی (dağ kedisi, “jungle cat, chaus”)
- كدی اوتی (kedi otu, “valerian”)
- كدی بالغی (kedi balığı, “ray”)
- مسك كدیسی (misk kedisi, “civet cat”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kedi
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kedi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2517
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كدی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1017
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Felis”, 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 560
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كدی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3893
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kedi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كدی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1533