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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قوپمق (ḳopmaḳ, “to break off, to start off, to begin”), from Proto-Turkic *kop- (“to come out, to move out”), morphologically kop- + -un + -tu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.punˈtu/
- Hyphenation: ko‧pun‧tu
Noun
kopuntu (definite accusative kopuntuyu, plural kopuntular)
- A piece broken off from the whole.
- (sociology) A minority living away from their homeland; diaspora.
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Further reading
- “kopuntu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu