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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قرق ییلده بر (ḳırḳ yılda bir),[1] equivalent to kırk (“forty”) + yıl (“year”) + -da (locative suffix) + bir (“a, one, indefinite determiner”), literally “once in/every forty years”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɯɾk.jɯɫ.da.biɾ/
- Hyphenation: kırk‧yıl‧da‧bir
Adverb
kırkyılda bir
- (idiomatic) very rarely, once in a blue moon
- Synonyms: kırkyılın başı, ayda yılda bir
- (idiomatic) finally after a very long time
- Synonym: kırkyılın başı
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