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Turkish
Etymology
Reduplication of ağır, inherited from Ottoman Turkish آغر آغر[1] or آغیر آغیر (aġır aġır, “slowly”),[2] from Proto-Turkic *iagïr (“heavy”).[3][4]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈɰɯɾ.a.ɰɯɾ/, (colloquial) /ˈaːɾ.aːɾ/
- Hyphenation: a‧ğır‧a‧ğır
Adverb
ağır ağır
- slowly, at a slow pace
- Synonyms: yavaş yavaş, yavaşça, usulca, aheste aheste
- carefully and meticulously
- In a full, weighty manner.
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آغر آغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 148
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آغیر آغیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 24
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*iagɨr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ağır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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