aşırı

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See also: asiri and aṣiri

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آشوری (aşurı) or آشیری (aşırı),[1] from Proto-Turkic *āĺru,[2][3] from *(i)āĺ- (to pass, to surpass).[4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ʃɯˈɾɯ/
  • Hyphenation: a‧şı‧rı

Adjective

aşırı

  1. excessive, extreme
  2. fanatical, zealous
  3. too much

Declension

Adverb

aşırı

  1. excessively, extremely

References

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آشوری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 125
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “aşru:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 264
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aşırı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  4. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*(i)āĺ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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