دلی
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Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- دلو (delü)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دلی, from Proto-Turkic *tēlbe (“mad, crazy”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dəli, Bashkir тиле (tile), Kazakh дәлду (däldu), Kyrgyz тели (teli), Turkmen däli, Uyghur تەلۋە (telwe) and Uzbek telba.
Adjective
دلی • (deli)
- mad, crazy, insane, lunatic, bonkers, not sane, exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind, mentally deranged
- whimsical, eccentric, quirky, bizarre, odd, given to quirks or idiosyncrasies, strange in a somewhat silly, manner
- inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthoughtful, not considerate, showing lack of due thought or care for the other people
- rash, foolhardy, reckless, impulsive, precipitate, acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks
Noun
دلی • (deli) (definite accusative دلیی (deliyi), plural دلیلر (deliler))
- madman, madwoman, loony, nut, psycho, schizo, nutcase, a person who is insane or mentally disturbed
- (historical) deli, a member of a light cavalry unit within the Ottoman Empire created to act as a shock troop
Derived terms
- جنك دلیسی (cenk delisi, “mad for war”)
- دلی آلاجهسی (deli alacası, “a bizarre matching of colors”)
- دلی اورمان (deli orman, “vast forest”)
- دلی باشی (deli başı, “leader of an irregular cavalry”)
- دلی بال (deli bal, “honey of low quality”)
- دلی دومان (deli duman, “whimsical and violent”)
- دلی دیوانه اولمق (deli divane olmak, “to become mad or crazy”)
- دلی صاچمهسی (deli saçması, “foolish or incongruous talk”)
- دلی طولو (deli dolu, “thoughtless, inconsiderate”)
- دلی فشك (deli fişek, “a reckless person”)
- دلی مانطار (deli mantar, “unedible mushroom”)
- دلیانه (deliyane, “pertaining to a madman”)
- دلیجه (delice, “maddish, somewhat mad”)
- دلیسی اولمق (delisi olmak, “to become mad or crazy”)
- دلیقانلو (delikanlı, “young man, lad”)
- دلیلك (delilik, “madness, craziness”)
- دلیلندرمك (delilendirmek, “to make or let become mad”)
- دلیلنمك (delilenmek, “to become mad or crazy”)
- زیر دلی (zır deli, “completely mad or crazy”)
- نه اولدم دلیسی (ne oldum delisi, “person full of fancies”)
Descendants
- Gagauz: deli
- Turkish: deli
- → Swedish: deli
- → Armenian: տէլի (tēli)
- → Greek: ντελής (ntelís)
- → Hungarian: deli
- → Serbo-Croatian: delija
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دلی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 751
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “deli”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1138
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دلی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 229a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دلی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 580
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stultus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1607
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دلی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2131
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “deli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دلی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 912
Urdu
Etymology
Transliteration of Hindi दिल्ली (dillī).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪ɪl.liː/
- Rhymes: -iː
Proper noun
دِلّی • (dillī) f (Hindi spelling दिल्ली)
Usage notes
This term is mainly used informally. The standard term for Delhi in Urdu is دہلی (dehlī).
See also
- (Union territories) یونین علاقہ (yūniyan ilāqā); جزائر انڈمان و نکوبار (jazāir-e-anḍamān-o-nikobār), چنڈی گڑھ (candī-gaṛh), دادرا و نگر حویلی و دمن و دیو (dādrā-o-nagar-havailī-o-daman-o-dīv), دہلی (dihlī), جموں و کشمیر (jammū̃-o-kaśmīr), لداخ (laddāx), لکشادیپ (lakśādīp), پدوچیری (pudūcerī), (Category: ur:Union territories of India)