صوی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *soy (race, lineage). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (soy).

Noun

صوی • (soy)

  1. sort, kind, type, variety, a group of entities that have common characteristics or qualities
    Synonyms: جنس (cins), چشید (çeşid)
  2. race, breed, strain, a group of people distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics
    Synonyms: صوپ (sop), نسل (nesl)
  3. lineage, ancestry, stock, descent, the descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage
    Synonyms: ذریت (zürriyet), نسل (nesl)

Derived terms

  • صوی صوپ (soy sop, relatives)
  • صویسز (soysız, worthless; degenerate)

Descendants

  • Turkish: soy
  • Albanian: soj
  • Armenian: սոյ (soy)
  • Macedonian: сој (soj)
  • Romanian: soi
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: со̏ј
    Latin script: sȍj

Further reading

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