mavi

Ultimately from Arabic مَاوِيّ‎ (māwiyy, “watery”). The “gay” sense is a semantic loan from Russian голубой (goluboj, “light blue; gay”).

mavi

1. blue
2. gay, homosexual

mavi

1. woman

• Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ماوى‎ (mavi), from Arabic مَاوِيّ‎ (māwiyy, “watery”).

mavi

1. blue

mavi (ma class, plural only)

1. dung, excrement

• choo

From Ottoman Turkish ماوى‎ (mavi), from Arabic مَاوِيّ‎ (māwiyy, “watery”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɑːvi]
• Hyphenation: ma‧vi

māvi (comparative daha mavi, superlative en mavi)

1. blue

māvi (definite accusative maviyi, plural maviler)

1. blue

• gök

• masmavi