دایی
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- دای (dayı), طایی (dayı)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tāy, *dāj (“maternal uncle”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tay, tagay), Azerbaijani dayı, Kyrgyz тай (tay), Southern Altai таай (taay), Turkmen daýy and Yakut таай (taay). Akin to Persian دایی (dâyi) and تغایی (taġāyī), both Turkic borrowings.
Noun
دایی • (dayı) (definite accusative داییی (dayıyı), plural داییلر (dayılar))
- maternal uncle, the brother of one's mother, thus a second-degree relative
- Synonym: خال (hal) — literary
- (historical) dey, the ruler of the Regency of Algiers under the Ottoman Empire
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- قبا دایی (kaba dayı, “bully”)
Descendants
- Turkish: dayı
- → Albanian: dajë
- → Armenian: տայի (tayi), դայի (dayi)
- → French: dey
- → Laz: დაჲი (dayi)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “دای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 729
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dayı3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1119
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “دایی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 219a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دایی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 565
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Avunculus”, 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 110
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دایی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[5], Vienna, column 2019
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dayı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دایی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 887
Persian
Alternative forms
- دائی (dâ'i), دای (dây)
Etymology
A Turkic borrowing: compare Turkish dayı, Azerbaijani dayı.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ɒː.jíː]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Iranian reading? | dâyi |
Audio (Iran): (file)
Noun
دایی • (dâyi)
- (chiefly Iran) maternal uncle (mother's brother)
Descendants
- → Khalaj: dâyı
See also
| Iranian Persian dialectal kinship terms واژگان لهجههای فارسی ایرانی برای خویشاوندان نسبی vâžegân-e lahja-hâ-ye fârsi-ye irâni barâ-ye xišâvandân-e nasabi | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family member | Standard Iranian Persian | Tehrani dialect | Abadani dialect | Kashani dialect | Shirazi dialect |
| mother | مادر (mâdar) | مامان (mâmân) | ننه (nene) | مامو (mâmo) | |
| grandmother | مادربزرگ (mâdar-bozorg) | مامانبزرگ (mâmân-bozorg) | بیبی (bi-bi) | ماجون (mâjun) | بیبی (bi-bi) |
| father | پدر (pedar) | بابا (bâbâ) | دده (dede) | بابا (bâbâ) | بابو (bâbo) |
| grandfather | پدربزرگ (pedar-bozorg) | بابابزرگ (bâbâbozorg) | بوبزرگ (bovobozorg)
آقوبزرگ (âġobozorg) | ||
| sister | خواهر (xâhar) | آبجی (âbji) | دده (dade) | — | آباجی (âbâji) |
| older sister | خواهربزرگ (xâhar-bozorg) | آقباجی (âġ-bâji) | — | باجی (bâji) | شاباجی (šâbâji) |
| brother | برادر (barâdar) | داداش (dâdâš) | کا (kâ) | وردار (vardâr) | کاکو (kâko)
داچی (dâčči) (younger brother) |
| older brother | برادربزرگ (barâdar-bozorg) | — | آکاکو (âkâko) | ||
| maternal aunt (mother's sister) |
خاله (xâle) | ||||
| maternal uncle (mother's brother) |
دایی (dâyi) | خالو (xâlu) | — | دئی (do'i) | |
| paternal aunt (father's sister) |
عمه (amme) | ||||
| paternal uncle (father's brother) |
عمو (amu) | آمو, عامو (âmu) | — | آمو, عامو (âmu) | |
| Dari Persian dialectal kinship terms واژگان لهجههای فارسی دری برای خویشاوندان نسبی wāžagān-i lahja-hā-yi fārsī-yi darī barā-yi xēšāwandān-i nasabī | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Family member | Standard Dari | Kabuli dialect | Hazaragi dialect |
| mother | مادر (mādar) | ننه (nana) | آبه (āba) |
| grandmother | مادرکلان (mādar-kalān) | بیبی (bī-bī) | آجه (āja) بیبی (bī-bī) |
| father | پدر (padar) | بابا (bābā) | آته (āta) |
| grandfather | پدرکلان (padar-kalān) | باباجی (bābājī) آغا (āġā) |
بابا (bābā) |
| sister | خواهر (xāhar) | خوار (xwār, xār) | |
| older sister | خواهرکلان (xāhar-kalān) | — | آغا (āġā) باجی (bājī) |
| brother | برادر (barādar) | بیادر (biyādar) | برار (birār) |
| older brother | برادرکلان (barādar-kalān) | لالا (lālā) | |
| maternal aunt (mother's sister) |
خاله (xāla) | ||
| maternal uncle (mother's brother) |
ماما (māmā) | ماما (māmā) تغایی (taġāyī) | |
| paternal aunt (father's sister) |
عمه (amma) | ||
| paternal uncle (father's brother) |
کاکا (kākā) | ||
- When referring to older family members, both بزرگ (buzurg) and کلان (kalān) are correct, but the latter is more common in Afghanistan.
- In many dialects, cases of word final ـا (-ā) may be optionally shortened to ـه (-a), e.g. بابا (bābā) > بابه (bāba).
- In many dialects, terms ending in ـه (-a) or ـا (-ā) may have an epenthetic ـی (-y) added (unrelated to ezafe), e.g. عمه (amma) > عمی (ammay).
References
- ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1963), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)[1] (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1176, page 196
- ^ Hassandoust, Mohammad (2004/2005), Bahman Sarkarati, editor, Farhang-e riše-šenâxti-ye zabân-e Farsi [An Etymological Dictionary of the Persian Language] (in Persian), volume II: P-D, Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature, →ISBN, page 1264
Further reading
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “دایی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press