كوكه
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *küńe (“moth”).
Cognates
Alternative forms
- كووه (güve), كوه (güve)
Noun
كوكه • (güğe) (definite accusative كوكهیی (güğeyi), plural كوكهلر (güğeler))
- moth, any nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea
- (specifically) clothes moth, any of several moths of the family Tineidae, feeding on textiles
Derived terms
- كوكه ینكی (güğe yeniği, “moth-eaten spot in a cloth”)
Descendants
- Turkish: güve
- → Armenian: կիւվէ (kiwvē) — Constantinople
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “كوكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 674
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “güve1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1813
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “كوه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 405b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كوكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1058
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Tinea”, 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[4], Vienna, column 1675
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[5], Vienna, column 4097
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “güve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كوكه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1599
Etymology 2
From either Italian cocca[1] or Old French coque (“cockboat, kind of small boat”).
Noun
كوكه • (köke) (definite accusative كوكهیی (kökeyi), plural كوكهلر (kökeler))
Descendants
- Turkish: göğe, göke, göve, köke
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “كوكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 673
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “göğe2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1738
- Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958), The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 202, page 171
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كوكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[7] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1058
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كوكه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1599
References
- ^ Eren, Hasan (1999), “köke”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language][1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi