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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish فقره (fıkra), from Arabic فِقْرة (fiqra, “short text, short story, line of a poem”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fıkra (definite accusative fıkrayı, plural fıkralar)
- anecdote; short piece of writing
- (law) paragraph
- joke
Declension
References
- “fıkra”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فقره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 907
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fıkra”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN