خوی

See also: جوي, حوي, خوى, حوى, جوی, and خۆی

Persian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠xwēy⁠/, “sweat, perspiration”) from Proto-Iranian *hwáydah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swáydas (“sweat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swóyd-o-s from the root *sweyd- (“sweat, to sweat”). Cognate with Baluchi ہید (hed) and English sweat. Doublet of خوید.

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? xway
Dari reading? xuy
Iranian reading? xoy
Tajik reading? xuy

Noun

خوی • (xway) (archaic)

  1. sweat
    Synonym: عرق ('araq)
  2. sown field, acre, meadow (cf. خوید (xwêd))
  3. herbage just sprouting above the ground
  4. saddle-cloth, or dorsers below the saddle

Etymology 2

Compare Old Armenian խոյր (xoyr), Persian خود (xôd).

Noun

خوی • (xôy)

  1. (obsolete) helmet

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

خوی • (xôy)

  1. Khoy (a city in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran)
  2. Khoy County (a county of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran)

Etymology 4

Otherwise خو (xô). Cognate to Sanskrit स्वधा (svadhā). 

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? xōy
Dari reading? xōy
Iranian reading? xuy
Tajik reading? xüy

Noun

خوی • (xôy) (literary)

  1. custom, wont
  2. humour, nature, habit

References
  • Müller, Friedrich (1894) “Pahlawi und neupersische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 8, pages 188–189
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خوی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 489b
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خوی”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 764a
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