قیصی

Khalaj

Noun

قَیصی (qəysi) (definite accusative قَیصینی, plural قَیصیلَر)

1. Arabic spelling of qəysi (“apricot”)

Declension

Declension of قیصی

	singular	plural
nominative	قیصی	قیصیلَر
genitive	قیصیݧ	قیصیلَریݧ
dative	قیصیکه	قیصیلَرکه
definite accusative	قیصیݧ	قیصیلَری
locative	قیصیچه	قیصیلَرچه
ablative	قیصیده	قیصیلَرده
instrumental	قیصیله	قیصیلَرله
equative	قیصیوارا	قیصیلَروارا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قایسی (kaysi, kayısı), قیسی (kaysi, kayısı)

Etymology

From Arabic قَيْسِي (qaysī, “an apricot cultivar with large size”), related to Arabic قَيْس (qays, “measurement, comparison”). Alternatively, has been suggested to originate from the placename قیصری (Kayseri), in the sense of "fruit produced in Kayseri".

Noun

قیصی • (kaysi, kayısı)

1. apricot (fresh fruit)

Descendants

• Turkish: kayısı
• → Albanian: kajsi
• → Armenian: խայիսի (xayisi), կա̈յսիր (käysir)
• → Bulgarian: кайси́я (kajsíja)
• → Greek: καΐσι (kaḯsi), καϊσί (kaïsí)
• → Ladino: kayisi
• → Macedonian: кајсија (kajsija)
• → Persian: قیصی (qeysi)
• → Romanian: caisă
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: кајсија

  Latin script: kajsija

See also

• زردالو (zerdalu, zerdali, “dried apricot”)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قایسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1428
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قایسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 940
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kayısı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قیصی (kaysi, kayısı).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qaj.ˈsiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäj.síː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäj.síː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qäj.síː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qäj.sí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qej.síː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qäj.sí]

Readings
Classical reading?	qaysī
Dari reading?	qaysī
Iranian reading?	ğeysi
Tajik reading?	qaysī

Noun

قیصی • (qeysi)

1. apricot

   Synonym: زردآلو (zard-âlu)

Descendants

• → Khalaj: qəysi