فویا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Italian foglia (“leaf”).

Noun

فویا • (foya)

  1. sheet of metal placed under a false or dull gem, foil to set off a precious stone in jewelry work
  2. falsehood, embellishment

Descendants
  • Turkish: foya

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فویا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 915
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فویا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1401
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “فویه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 672
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