فاخته

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

First attested in 1482 in Old Anatolian Turkish, from Persian فاخته (fâxte).

Noun

فاخته • (fahte)

  1. two types of columbids:
    1. wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)
      Synonym: قوسقوغوق (kuskuğuk)
    2. turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur)

Derived terms

  • فاختی (fahıtı, dove-colored)

Descendants

  • Turkish: fattıke (with metathesis)

Further reading

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فاخته”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3449–3450
  • Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13th to the 16th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 91
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فاخته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1358
  • Tietze, Andreas (2009) “fahte”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 28a

Persian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [fɑːx.t̪ʰǽ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [fɑːx.t̪ʰǽ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [fɔːx.t̪ʰǽ]

Readings
Classical reading? fāxta
Dari reading? fāxta
Iranian reading? fâxte
Tajik reading? foxta

Noun

فاخته • (fâxte)

  1. dove, especially of genus Streptopelia
  2. (dialectal) cuckoo

Descendants

  • Old Anatolian Turkish: فاخته (fâhte)
    • Ottoman Turkish: فاخته (fahte)
      • Turkish: fattıke (with metathesis)
    • Classical Azerbaijani: faxtə

References

  • Steblin-Kamenskij, I.M. (1999) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ vaxanskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Wakhi Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskoje Vostokovedenije, →ISBN, page 174
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