civciv

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish جیوجیو‎ (civciv, “cry of a young bird; young bird”),[1][2]. Probably imitative.[3] In pre-Ottoman writing (Ahmedî, İskendernâme) as [script needed] (cūje), and similarly in Persian, as جوجه‎ (juje).

Compare Armenian ճիվճիվ (čivčiv), ծիվծիվ (civciv, “cry of a bird”), Bulgarian джив-джив (dživ-dživ), Macedonian џив-џив (dživ-dživ).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [dʒiβdʒiβ]
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  • Hyphenation: civ‧civ

Noun

civciv (definite accusative civcivi, plural civcivler)

  1. chick (young chicken)
  2. (slang) young woman

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. Kélékian, Diran (1911), “جیوجیو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 454
  2. Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “civciv”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1667
  3. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “civciv”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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