kıtıpiyos

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Turkish

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قتیپیوس (kıtıpiyos), from a dialectal form of Greek και αυτός ποιος (είναι;) (kai aftós poios (eínai;), “and who (is) this one?”, a pejorative expression for a worthless person). Compare Turkish aftospiyos.

Noun

kıtıpiyos (slang)

  1. ordinary, trifling, unimportant fellow

Adjective

kıtıpiyos (slang)

  1. ordinary, trifling, unimportant
  2. low-quality, worthless, bad
  3. (Tarsus) overly fond of money

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More information
  • Aktunç, Hulki (1998) “kıtipiyoz”, in Türkçenin büyük argo sözlüğü (tanıklarıyla) [Great Dictionary of Turkish Argot (with Attestations)] (in Turkish), Istanbul: YKY, page 183a
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “kıtıpiyos”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 658b
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kıtıpiyos”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume III, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2642ab
  • Devellioğlu, Ferit (1980) “kıtıpiyos”, in Türk argosu: Inceleme ve sözlük (Aydin Kitabevi yayınları. Sözlük dizisi; 1)‎ (in Turkish), 6th edition, Ankara: Aydın Kitabevi, page 109b
  • Fikri, A. (1890) “قتیپیوس”, in Lûgat-ı Garîbe [Slang Dictionary]‎ (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: Âlem Matbaası, page 22
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  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kıtıpiyos”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2022-09-11
  • Püsküllüoğlu, Ali (2021) “kıtıpiyos”, in Türkçenin Argo Sözlüğü [Turkish Slang Dictionary] (in Turkish), 4th edition, Ankara: Arkadaş, →ISBN, page 120
  • Symeonidis, Charalambos (1973) “Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen”, in Balkan Studies‎ (in German), volume 14, § 82, page 180
  • Symeonidis, Charalambos (2001) “Zum türkischen Argot und seinen griechischen Elementen”, in Birgit Igla and Thomas Stolz, editors, "Was ich noch sagen wollte…": A multilingual Festschrift for Norbert Boretzky on occasion of his 65th birthday (Studia Typologica; 2) (in German), →DOI, page 185 of 181–187
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