پایدوس

• پایدوست (paydost), پای دوست (pay dost)

From Persian پای (pây) + دوست (dôst), originally a command, then used with the light verb ایتمك (etmek), thereafter a noun.

پایدوس • (paydos)

1. a cry used as a signal to workmen when the time comes to knock off work

پایدوس • (paydos)

1. cessation of work, recess, respite

• Turkish: paydos, paydoz, faydos, faydoz
• → Albanian: pajdós
• → Arabic:

  North Levantine Arabic: فوداس (fôdās), فايدوس (fāydôs)

  South Levantine Arabic: فيدوس (fēdūs), فدوس (fadūs)

• → Armenian: փայտօս (pʻaytōs), փա̈յդօսթ (pʻäydōstʻ); փայտօստ (pʻaytōst)
• → Aromanian: paidós
• → Bulgarian: па́йдос (pájdos)
• → Greek: πάϊντος (páïntos)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: paydos

  Central Kurdish: پایدۆست (paydost, “armistice, truce”)

• → Ladino: paytós
• → Macedonian: пајдос (pajdos)
• → Romanian: paidós
• → Serbo-Croatian: pàjdos / па̀јдос

• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “paydos”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı, remarking that the traditional Greek etymologies are uncertain
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “paydos”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume IV, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3803, deriving from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis) with a question mark
• Eyuboğlu, İsmet Zeki (1991) “paydos”, in Türk dilinin etimoloji sözlüğü [Etymological dictionary of the Turkish language] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Sosyal Yayınlar, page 263a
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پایدوس”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 107a, spelling also as پای دوست and thus implying the Persian origin
• “Türkisches Militär-Reglement. Kanun-name, d. i. militärisches Dienstreglement für die neuen türkischen Truppen. Gedruckt zu Constantinopel im Silkide 1244. (May 1829.) 189 Seiten in Quart”, in Leipziger Literaturzeitung‎ (in German), number 16, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1830, column 125, where the military command is read paydüs and derived from German bei Fuß, which Zenker cites with reservation.
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “paydos”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2021-07-02, preferring a Greek origin
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پایدوس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 437a, deriving from non-existent Greek *φάγετος (*fágetos, “feeding-time”)
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پایدوس”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 174a