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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish آدم یوقلغی (adam yoḳluġu, “the lack of able men”),[1] from آدم (adam) and یوقلق (yoḳluḳ),[2][3] equivalent to adam (“man; human being, person”) + yok (“absent, not present, non-existent”) + -luk + -u (possessive suffix) + -(n)da (locative suffix with "n" as buffer consonant), literally “in the abscence of (proper) man”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈdam.jok.luːun.da/
- Hyphenation: a‧dam‧yok‧lu‧ğun‧da
Adverb
adam yokluğunda
- (figuratively) Used to indicate the manner a person comes by a position purely due to a lack of better options, that the person in question is most likely unqualified or undesired for the position otherwise; vaguely similar to "lesser of two evils".
- Synonym: adam kıtlığında
2013 December, Fuat Cenk ONAT, chapter 4, in Çividen Mürekkebe: Hep Daha Fazlasını İstediler, Cinius Yayınları, →ISBN, page 48:Gol atmayı beceremediği için ... ancak adam yokluğunda o da "kaleye geçmek" şartıyla takımda yer alabilen biri ... olarak çocukluğunu geçirmişti.- As he couldn't manage to score goals, he spent his childhood as someone who could only take part in teams due to lack of players and that with the condition that he "goalkeeps."
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