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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كزندی (gezindi, gezinti, “a corridor, place where there is much walking, an idle stroller”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish كزنمك (gezinmek, “to go about without a definite purpose”) or Ottoman Turkish كزینمك (gezinmek),[2] from Ottoman Turkish كزمك (gezmek, “to move or travel about in, to go about or lounge about”), from Proto-Turkic *keŕ- (to wander, to walk through),[3][4] morphologically gez- + -in + -ti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɟe.zinˈti/
- Hyphenation: ge‧zin‧ti
Noun
gezinti (definite accusative gezintiyi, plural gezintiler)
- A stroll, an outing, a short trip.
- Synonym: (archaic) tenezzüh
Declension
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كزندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1545
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كزینمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1025
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gEŕ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gez-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “gezinti”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu