خیوه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (xive).

Proper noun

خیوه • (hive)

Khiva (a city in the Xorazm region, Uzbekistan)

Descendants

Turkish: Hive

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خیوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 878

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