# دایی
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* دای (dayı), طایی (dayı)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tāy, *dāj (“maternal uncle”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tay, tagay), Azerbaijani dayı, Kyrgyz тай (tay), Southern Altai таай (taay), Turkmen daýy and Yakut таай (taay). Akin to Persian دایی (dâyi) and تغایی (tağāyī), both Turkic borrowings.

### Noun

دایی • (dayı) (definite accusative داییی (dayıyı), plural داییلر (dayılar))
* maternal uncle, the brother of one's mother, thus a second-degree relative
    Synonym: خال (hal) — literary
* (historical) dey, the ruler of the Regency of Algiers under the Ottoman Empire

#### Coordinate terms

* تیزه (teyze, “maternal aunt”)
* خاله (hala, “paternal aunt”)
* عموجه (ʼamuca, “paternal uncle”)

#### Derived terms

* قبا دایی (kaba dayı, “bully”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: dayı
* → Albanian: dajë
* → Armenian: տայի (tayi), դայի (dayi)
* → French: dey
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: да̀иџа
    Latin script: dàidža

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 729
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dayı3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1119
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دایی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 219a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دایی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 565
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Avunculus”, 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, Vienna, column 110
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دایی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2019
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dayı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دایی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 887

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* دائی (dâ'i), دای (dây)

### Etymology

A Turkic borrowing: compare Turkish dayı, Azerbaijani dayı.

### Pronunciation

* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪ɒː.jíː]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

| Dari | ماما |
| Iranian Persian | دایی |
| Tajik | тағо |
دایی • (dâyi)
* (chiefly Iran) maternal uncle (mother's brother)
    Synonym: (Dari) ماما (mâmâ)
    Coordinate terms: عمو ('amu), کاکا (kâkâ), کاکو (kâko)

#### Descendants

* → Khalaj: dâyı

### See also

* عمه ('amme) (paternal aunt)
* خاله (xâle) (maternal aunt)

### References

* ↑ Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎ (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1176, page 196
* ↑ Hassandoust, Mohammad (2004/2005) Bahman Sarkarati, editor, Farhang-e riše-šenâxti-ye zabân-e Farsi [An Etymological Dictionary of the Persian Language] (in Persian), volume II: P-D, Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature, →ISBN, page 1264

### Further reading

* Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “دایی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press