شیوه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شیوه (šēwa). The sense related to speech, which survives to modern Turkish, is a shortening of شیوهٔ لسان (şive-i lisan, “idiom”).

Noun

شیوه • (şive)

  1. manner, style
  2. affectation
  3. grace
  4. accent, tone, manner of speech [20th century]
    • 1923, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Nur Baba‎[1], page 27:
      نور بابا بو سوزلری آجی بر استهزا شیوه‌سیله سویله‌دی؛ […]
      Nur Baba bu sözleri acı bir istihza şivesile söyledi; […]
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Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: şive

Further reading

  • Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), “şive”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “شیوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 742
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “şive”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Persian

Etymology

From the stem of شیب (šib, “tilt, descend; bottom, base”) and شیفتن (šiftan, “to attract, to infatuate, to besot”) +‎ ـه (-e).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? šēwa
Dari reading? šēwa
Iranian reading? šive
Tajik reading? ševa

Noun

Dari شیوه
Iranian Persian
Tajik шева

شیوه • (šēwa / šive) (plural شیوه‌ها (šēwa-hā / šive-hâ), Tajik spelling шева)

  1. method, way
  2. graceful gesture or glance, blandishment, fizgig
  3. craft, ruse, guile

Descendants

  • → Azerbaijani: şivə
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: शेवा (śevā)
    Urdu: شیوَہ (śeva)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: شیوه (şive)
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