oya

See also: Oya, ọya, Ọya, and -ʼoyą

Japanese

Romanization

oya

Rōmaji transcription of おや

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuoiya as an equivalent of English pick (up) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔja/

Verb

oya (infinitive kuoya)

to pick^[2]
Mũgambo ũrĩ kũgũa thĩ nduoyagwo; woyagwo na ũngĩ.^[3]
A falling voice is not picked up (by the speaker), but by others.
to lift
Yaarĩĩkia kuuga ũgwo ĩkĩoya magũrũ.^[4]
When he [a hyena (hiti)] had said that he started off. (lit. it just finished saying so lifted feet.)

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

(to pick):

thutha wa arũme nduoyagwo ruoya

(to lift):

kamũingĩ koyaga ndĩrĩ

References

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 236.
^ Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 53. London: Macmillan.
^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, pp. 300–301. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Old Javanese

Etymology 1

Particle

oya

Alternative spelling of wwaya (“no”)

Etymology 2

Particle

oya

Alternative spelling of honya (“there”)

Tatar

Noun

oya

nest

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish اویا (oya), ultimately borrowed from Greek ούγια (oúgia, “sheepskin; fringe, edge”).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Noun

oya (definite accusative oyayı, plural oyalar)

needle lace
Synonym: iğne danteli

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	oya
Definite accusative	oyayı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oya	oyalar
Definite accusative	oyayı	oyaları
Dative	oyaya	oyalara
Locative	oyada	oyalarda
Ablative	oyadan	oyalardan
Genitive	oyanın	oyaların

Derived terms

oyacı

Etymology 2

Noun

oya

dative singular of oy

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1675
^ Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oya”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3654
^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
^ Tietze, Andreas (2002, 2009) “oya”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume VI, Istanbul, Vienna, page 184

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[arb1960-2] Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 236.

[gb1960-3] Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 53. London: Macmillan.

[lea1940-4] Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, pp. 300–301. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

[5] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1675

[6] Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oya”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3654

[7] Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “oya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

[8] Tietze, Andreas (2002, 2009) “oya”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume VI, Istanbul, Vienna, page 184

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Japanese

Romanization

Kikuyu

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

Derived terms

References

Old Javanese

Etymology 1

Particle

Etymology 2

Particle

Further reading

Tatar

Noun

Turkish

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

References