قوا

قُوا • (qū) (form I) /quː/

1. second-person masculine plural imperative of وَقَى (waqā)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kobga. Cognate to Southern Altai кого (kogo).

قُوا (qovā)

1. bucket

• Old Anatolian Turkish:
  • Ottoman Turkish: قوغه, قووه (kova)
    • > Turkish: kova (inherited)
    • → Armenian: խովա (xova)
    • → Bulgarian: ко́фа (kófa)
    • → Byzantine Greek: κουβάς (koubás)
      • > Greek: κουβάς (kouvás) (inherited)
    • → Macedonian: кофа (kofa)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: ко̏фа

      Latin script: kȍfa

• Turkmen: gowa

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 237

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قُوا (qovā)

1. the strap of the bridle that is fastened toward the horse’s nose

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 237

قوا • (kuva)

1. plural of قوت (kuvvet)

قوا • (quvâ)

1. (Dari) military, forces