قوطی
See also: قوطي
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- قوتی (kutu, kutı), قوطو (kutu, kutı), قوتو (kutu, kutı)
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek κουτί (koutí, “box, caddy”), from Ancient Greek κυτίον (kutíon), diminutive of κύτος (kútos, “hollow; vessel”).
Noun
قوطی • (kutu or kutı) (definite accusative قوطیی (kutuyu, kutıyı), plural قوطیلر (kutular, kutılar))
Derived terms
- حلالی قوطی (halali kutu, “kind of bag”)
- دیكیش قوطیسی (dikiş kutusu, “lady's workbox”)
- فساد قوطیسی (fesâd kutusu, “intriguer”)
- قوطی انجیری (kutu inciri, “figs packed in drums”)
- قوطی كبی (kutu gibi, “small and cozy (of a house)”)
- قوطیجی (kutucu, “boxmaker”)
- كبریت قوطیسی (kibrit kutusu, “matchbox”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kutu
- → Albanian: kuti
- → Aromanian: cutíe
- → Bulgarian: кути́я (kutíja)
- → Georgian: ყუთი (q̇uti)
- → Gulf Arabic: قوطي (gūṭi)
- → Macedonian: кутија (kutija)
- → Middle Armenian: ղութի (ġutʻi), ղուդի (ġudi)
- Armenian: ղութի (ġutʻi), խութի (xutʻi), կութի (kutʻi)
- → Persian: قوطی (quti)
- → Romanian: cutie
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “قوطی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 566
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kutu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2868
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “قوطی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 375b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قوطی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 984b
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Pyxis”, 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[3], Vienna, column 1414
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قوطی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3797
- Meyer, Gustav (1893), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 50
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kutu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قوطی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1489
Persian
Alternative forms
- قوتی (quti)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قوطی (kutu, kutı), from Greek κουτί (koutí).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /quː.ˈtiː/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [quː.t̪ʰiː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [quː.t̪ʰiː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [qu.t̪ʰi]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | qūtī |
| Dari reading? | qūtī |
| Iranian reading? | ġuti |
| Tajik reading? | quti |
Noun
قوطی • (qūtī / ġuti) (plural قوطیها (qūtī-hā / ġuti-hâ), Tajik spelling қутӣ)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قوطي (qūṭiyy, “Gothic”)
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /quː.t̪iː/
Adjective
قوطی • (qūtī) (Hindi spelling क़ूती)
- Gothic, of or pertaining to Goths
- Synonym: گوتھک (gauthik)
- ہَسپانِیَہ کی قُوطی راج فاتَح مسلمان خِلافَت نے خَتم کِیا
- haspāniya kā qūtī rāj musalmān xilāfat ne xatm kiyā
- the Gothic reign of Spain was brought to an end by the Muslim Caliphate
Noun
قوطی • (qūtī) m or f (Hindi spelling क़ूती)
- a Goth; an East Germanic people who played a major role in the destruction of the Roman Empire
Derived terms
- قُوطِی رَسْمُ الخَط (qūtī rasm-ul-xat, “Gothic script”)
Related terms
- قوط (qūt, “Gothic nation”)
- گوتھ (gauth, “Goth”)
References
- “قوطی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “قوطی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “قوطی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “قوطی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.