delikanlı

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دلیقانلی, دلیقانلو (delikanlı), equivalent to deli (crazy) +‎ kan (blood) +‎ -lı (with). "He who has crazy blood".

Pronunciation

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Adjective

delikanlı

  1. honest (male person)

Noun

delikanlı (definite accusative delikanlıyı, plural delikanlılar)

  1. young man (an adolescent who recently got out of his childhood)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative delikanlı
Definite accusative delikanlıyı
Singular Plural
Nominative delikanlı delikanlılar
Definite accusative delikanlıyı delikanlıları
Dative delikanlıya delikanlılara
Locative delikanlıda delikanlılarda
Ablative delikanlıdan delikanlılardan
Genitive delikanlının delikanlıların

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