𐰴𐰆𐰉𐰃
kovı
Meaning:
1. hollow; 2. (figurative) unlucky, worthless
Examples
Translations
German:
1. hohl; 2. (übertragen) unglücklich
Russian:
1. полый, дуплистый; 2. (перен.) неудачный, злополучный; никчемный
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
içi boş; bəxtsiz, bədbəxt
Turkish (Türkiye):
1. kof, içi boş; 2. (mecaz) şanssız, mutsuz, kutsuz
Bibliography 6
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Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkicp. 267ap. 267a
quv ‘hollow’ (CCb) [<*qovï, cf. CL 581a]; quv aġač ‘hollow tree’ (CCb) -
Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğüp. 398bp. 398b
kovı unglücklich || mutsuz, kutsuz; ohne Verdienst || sevapsız; hohl, leer, wüst || oyuk, boş, tenha; die Leerheit || boşluk
kovı süŋök hohle Knochen || oyuk kemik -
Международная Тюркская Академия (2016) Древнетюркский словарь490490QOVÏ 1. полый, дуплистый (МК III 225); 2. перен. неудачный, злополучный; никчемный: qovï ẹr quduɣqa kirsä jẹl alïr если неудачник бросается в колодец, [его] забирает ветер (МК III 226); küvänmä qovï quṭqa quš tẹg učar не полагайся на злополучное счастье, оно улетает, как птица (QBH 558).
♢ qovï qïl- делать впустую, зря; растрачивать попусту, напрасно: üküs kördüm ẹrni java qïldï baš / küdäzmädi boɣuzïn qovï qïldï jaš я видел много мужей, [они] напрасно сложили голову; / [они] не следили за своей пищей и попусту растрачивали жизнь (QBK 1649); qïvčaq qovï см. qïvč aq II; qutsuz qovï см. qutsuz.
☐ ср. qobï I. -
Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languagespp. 710–711pp. 710–711
*kŏ́bú hollow, cavity: Tung. *kobi / kebi(ŋe); Mong. *koɣu-su; Turk. *Kobuk; Jpn. *kúmpuá; Kor. *kōr- (?).
PTung. *kobi / kebi(ŋe) 1 hole, hollow 2 cavity (1 углубление, дупло 2 впадина, углубление): Evn. qobmiĺa 1, kēwŋe, kewuŋe 2; Man. qobi 1.
◊ ТМС 1, 402, 442. The Manchu form is regarded by Rozycki 141 as borrowed < Mong. qobil ‘groove’ (q.v. sub *ki̯opu), which is hardly the case.
PMong. *koɣu-su empty, hollow (пустой, полый): MMong. qo’o-sun (SH, HYt); WMong. qoɣusun (L 953); Kh. xōson; Bur. xōho(n); Kalm. xōsn; Ord. xōson; Mog. qosun; Dag. xōson (Тод. Даг. 178), hōson (MD 164); Dong. qosun; Bao. xosoŋ; S.-Yugh. χūsən; Mongr. xōʒən (SM 169), (MGCD xōsən).
◊ KW 191, 192-193, MGCD 355. Mong. > Evk. kōhon, see Doerfer MT 127.
PTurk. *Kobu-k empty, hollow (пустой, полый): OTurk. qovɨ (OUygh.); Karakh. qovɨ, qovuq (MK); Tur. kovuk, gavɨk (dial.); Turkm. Govaq, Govuq, Govalč, Govuz; MTurk. qovuq (AH); Uygh. quaq (dial.); Khak. xax.
◊ VEWT 273, TMN 3, 415, ЭСТЯ 6, 5-6.
PJpn. *kúmpuá 1 cavity 2 to be concave, hollow (1 впадина, углубление 3 быть вогнутым, полым): OJpn. kub(w)o 1, kub(w)o-m- 2; MJpn. kúbó 1, kúbóm- 2; Tok. kubo 1, kùbo-m- 2; Kyo. kúbóm- 2; Kag. kubóm- 2.
◊ JLTT 461, 714.
PKor. *kōr- (?) to become hollow (становиться полым, пустым): Mod. kōl-.
◊ SKE 122.
‖ SKE 122. Cf. *gupu. The Kor. form *kōr- presupposes *kobVr-; however, it is only found in SKE and may be in fact = *kòrh- ‘be hungry, empty’ (see *gṓŕa). -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish581581
VU(D) kovı: n.o.a.b.; cognate to kovuk, kovğa: which seems to indicate that the first vowel was -o-; morphologically both could be Dev. N.s fr. kov-, but there is no semantic connection. The two meanings given by Kaş. can reasonably be regarded as lit. and metaph. Türkü viii ff. IrkB 36 (uçru:ğlu:ğ): Uyğ. viii ff. Bud. kamağ kutsuz kovı ters biligliğ tınlığlar ‘all unfortunate mortals who do not enjoy the favour of heaven and have false (or heretical?) ideas’ TT VI 24; a.o. do. 19: Civ. iki köŋül köŋül (sic, but dittography) tutup kovı bolsar eltin xantın açığ bolur mu? ‘if a man has a divided mind(?) and is unfortunate, should the realm and xan be angry?’ TT I 178-80 (translation conjectural): Xak. xi kovı: yığa:ç al-quffa wa huwa’l-şacaru’l-bālī ‘a rotten (i.e. hollow?) tree’; also pronounced kowı: with -w-: Arğu: xi kovı: er ‘an unlucky’ (al-mudbir) ‘man’ (prov.) Kaş. III 225: KB (if an ambassador is quick-witted wise and alert, his master benefits and thereby retains his colour, i.e. reputation) yalavac yavuz bolsa kıvçak kovı sezigsiz tüker anda begler suvı ‘if an ambassador is bad and unlucky(?), undoubtedly his masters’ honour is impaired’ (lit. ‘water’, an abbreviation of yüz suvı a calque of Persian āb-i rū metaph. ‘honour’) 2639; bu kıvçak kovı dünyā keçki ajun neçe beg karıttı karımaz özün ‘this unlucky(?) world is an old world, however much it makes begs aged, it does not age itself’ 5133 (kıvçak is noted only in these two passages; the other supposed occurrences of kobi ‘empty’ in R II 659 are based on misreadings): Kıp. xiv kuv ağaç ‘a hollow tree’ CCG; Gr. -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachenp. 273bp. 273b
KB. koby ’leer’, mtü. kovy, kowy, kovuk, AH. kovuḱ, B.d.M. koγuk, osm. kovuk, kouk, kof ’hohl, angehöhlt, Höhlung’, koγuk ’leer, hohl’, osm. kavyk ’etwas Ausgehöhltes, Leeres’ (Kontam. mit kavyk ’Blase’ < *kaγuk), tar. kabak ’hohl’, ? jak. χobo ’дутый металлический шар’
S. *koγuš 275b
