قادین

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • قادن (kadın)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *xātun (queen, lady); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐱃𐰆𐰣 (qatun, queen), Azerbaijani qadın, Kazakh қатын (qatyn), Kyrgyz катын (katın), Karakhanid قاتُونْ (qātūn, noble woman), Uyghur خوتۇن (xotun), Uzbek xotin and Yakut хотун (qotun). Doublet of خاتون (hatun).

Noun

قادین • (kadın)

  1. lady, matron, consort, spouse
    Synonyms: خانم (hanım), سیده (seyyide)

Derived terms

  • قادین طوزلغی (kadın tuzluğu, barberry)
  • قادینجق (kadıncık, young lady)
  • قادینلق (kadınlık, quality of a lady)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kadın
  • English: kadin
  • Romanian: cadână

Further reading

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