# طوی
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* توی (toy)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tod (“bustard”), a root that is known in Turkic languages from the 11th century. Compare Khakas тодах (todax), Kyrgyz тоодак (toodak) and Turkmen togdary, all containing the same root.

#### Noun

طوی • (toy) (definite accusative طویی (toyu), plural طویلر (toylar))
* bustard, any of several large terrestrial birds of the order Otidiformes living in dry grasslands or steppes
    Synonym: حباری (hubara)
* (figuratively) fool, imbecile, dullard, dolt, dummy, jerk, a person with poor judgement or little intelligence

#### Adjective

طوی • (toy)
* simple-minded, naive, artless, ingenuous, unsophisticated, lacking subtlety or sophistication
    Synonyms: ساده (sade), ساده‌دل (sadedil), ساده‌لوح (sadelevh), صاف (saf)

##### Derived terms

* بیوك طوی (büyük toy, “great bustard”)
* طوی یاوروسی (toy yavrusu, “young of a bustard”)
* طویلق (toyluk, “silliness, dullness”)
* عربستان طویی (ʼarabistan toyu, “houbara bustard”)
* كوچوك طوی (küçük toy, “little bustard”)
* چاغرغان طوی (çağırgan toy, “bittern”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: toy
* → Albanian: tojë
* → Armenian: թոյ / թօյ (tʻoy)

#### References

* ↑ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “to:ḏ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 449

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 331
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “toy3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4882
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طوی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 320a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 825
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Otis”, 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 1228
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3155
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “toy1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1264

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *toy (“camp; gathering; feast”); cognate with Azerbaijani toy, Bashkir туй (tuy), Chuvash туй (tuj), Kazakh той (toi), Kyrgyz той (toy), Turkmen toý, Uyghur توي (toy), Uzbek toʻy and Yakut той (toy).

#### Noun

طوی • (toy or doy) (definite accusative طویی (toyu, doyu), plural طویلر (toylar, doylar))
* (in general) banquet, feast, any large meal, often of a ceremonial nature
    Synonym: ضیافت (zıyafet, ziyafet)
* (in particular) wedding-feast, a banquet held after the completion of a marriage

##### Derived terms

* طوی ایتمك (toy etmek, “to give a feast”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: toy

#### References

* ↑ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “to:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 566

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 331
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “toy1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4882
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 825
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “toy2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1264

## Turkmen
### Alternative forms

* toý, sc-Latin

### Etymology

from Proto-Turkic *toy (feast).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [toj]
* IPA: [tʰoj]

### Noun

طوی (toý)
* wedding
    طوینگز قوتلی بولسینtoýuňyz gutly bolsynhappy wedding
* feast, banquet