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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From çök- + -üntü.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): ,
- Hyphenation: çö‧kün‧tü
Noun
çöküntü (definite accusative çöküntünü, plural çöküntülər)
- sediment, deposition, deposit
- wreckage, debris, rubble, remnant of things that have collapsed
Declension
Further reading
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish چوكندی (çökündü, “fallen materials, sediment, deposit”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish چوكونمك (çökünmek, “to kneel or crouch down, for sediment to settle”), from Ottoman Turkish چوكمك (çökmek, “to collapse, to fall down, for sediment to settle or be precipitated”), from Proto-Turkic *čök- (“to kneel, to sit down”),[2] morphologically çök- + -ün + -tü.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃœ.cynˈty/
- Hyphenation: çö‧kün‧tü
Noun
çöküntü (definite accusative çöküntüyü, plural çöküntüler)
- A collapse, breakdown
- Synonym: çökme
- The remnant of things that have collapsed; debris, wreck, wreckage.
- (psychology) depression
- Synonyms: depresyon, bunalım, (dated) buhran
- The materials that settle down at the bottom of a liquid; sediment, deposit.
- (geology) subsidence, caving
- (economy) economic crisis, depression
Declension
References
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
Further reading
- “çöküntü”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu