dəli

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See also: deli

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic дәли
Abjad دلی

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tēlbe (“mad, stupid”).[1] Cognate with Turkish deli, Uzbek telba, Turkmen däli and telbe, Southern Altai тели (teli), Tatar тилбә (tilbä, “foolish person”), Chuvash тилӗр (tilĕr, “become enraged”) etc.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: də‧li

Adjective

dəli

  1. crazy, mad
    Synonyms: gic, divanə, məcnun

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Lezgi: дели (deli)

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dẹ̄l(b)ü-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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