دوه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tebe; cognate with Azerbaijani dəvə, Bashkir дөйә (döyə), 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)
    • 1892 April 9, معارف [ma'arif, Knowledge]‎[1], tarih-i tabii [Natural History], page 205:
      آسیا و آفریقانك غیر مثمر اقالیمی اهالیسی ایچون اڭ ذیقیمت حیوان دوه‌در.
      asya ve afrikanıñ gayri müsmir ekalimi ahalisi için eñ zikıymet heyvan devedir.
      The most precious animal for the people of Asia and Africa's inhospitable climates is the camel.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Gagauz: devä
  • Turkish: deve
  • Albanian: deve
  • Armenian: դավա (dava)
  • Northern Kurdish: deve
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: дева
    Latin script: deva

Further reading

Pashto

Pashto cardinal numbers
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dwa/
  • Audio:(file)

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