عنكبوتی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَنْكَبُوتِيّ (ʕankabūtiyy). By surface analysis, عنكبوت (ʿankebut) +‎ ـی (-î, nisba suffix).

Adjective

عنكبوتی • (ʿankebutî)

pertaining to the spider, spiderlike, arachnoid

Descendants

Turkish: ankebutî

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ankebutî”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 256
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عنكبوتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 863
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عنكبوتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1325

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