كوپری
See also: كوبري
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- كورپی (körpi), كورپو (körpü)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *köpürüg (“bridge”); cognate with Azerbaijani körpü, Bashkir күпер (küper), Chuvash кӗпер (kĕp̬er), Kazakh көпір (köpır), Kyrgyz көпүрө (köpürö), Tatar күпер (küper), Turkmen köpri, Uyghur كۆۋرۈك (köwrük) and Uzbek koʻprik.
Noun
كوپری • (köpri or köprü) (definite accusative كوپرییی (köpriyi, köprüyü), plural كوپریلر (köpriler, köprüler))
- bridge, a construction that spans a divide, allowing for the passage of people and vehicles
- cleat, a strip of wood or iron fastened onto something in order to give strength or hold position
- trigger guard, a loop surrounding the trigger of a weapon to keep it from accidental discharge
Declension
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Derived terms
- آتلامه كوپری (atlama köpri, “pedestrian bridge”)
- آصمه كوپری (asma köpri, “drawbridge”)
- اكرتی كوپری (eğreti köpri, “temporary bridge”)
- اوزون كوپری (uzun köpri, “Uzunköprü, a district in Turkey”)
- اپولت كوپریسی (epolet köprisi, “shoulder strap of an epaulette”)
- دری كوپری (deri köpri, “bridge leaning on another one”)
- دوبه كوپری (duba köpri, “pontoon bridge”)
- سهپا كوپری (sehpa köpri, “trestle bridge”)
- سپت كوپری (sepet köpri, “gabion bridge”)
- صال كوپری (sal köpri, “raft bridge”)
- طاش كوپریسی (taş köprisi, “stone bridge”)
- طوقه كوپریسی (toka köprisi, “bridge of a buckle”)
- طومباز كوپری (tombaz köpri, “raft bridge”)
- طیار كوپری (tayyar köpri, “flying bridge”)
- قازیق كوپری (kazık köpri, “piloti bridge”)
- قالقار كوپری (kalkar köpri, “drawbridge”)
- كلید كوپریسی (kilid köprisi, “hasp of a lock”)
- كمان كوپریسی (keman köprisi, “bridge of a violin”)
- كوپری كوزلری (köpri gözleri, “arches of a bridge”)
- كوپریجك (köpricik, “collarbone”)
- كوپریجی (köprici, “toll-taker of a bridge”)
- كوپریلو (köprili, “bridged”)
- متحرك كوپری (mutaharrik köpri, “movable bridge”)
- چاتمه كوپری (çatma köpri, “frame bridge”)
Descendants
- Turkish: köprü
- → Armenian: քէօփրիւ (kʻēōpʻriw)
- → Bulgarian: кюприя (kjuprija) (obsolete)
- → Egyptian Arabic: كوبري (kobrı)
- → Greek: κιοπρουλής (kioproulís)
- → Hijazi Arabic: كبري (kubri)
- → Ladino: kyupri, kopri
- → Macedonian: ќуприја (ḱuprija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ћу̀прија/ćùprija
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “كوپری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 651
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “köprü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2787
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “كوپری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 398a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كوپری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1045
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Pons”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1317
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كوپری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4050
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “köprü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كوپری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1580