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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish لاقردی (lakırdı, “anything said, talk, conversation”) or لقردی,[1] from Ottoman Turkish لك (lak, lek, “idle words, nonsense”),[2] from Proto-Turkic *lak (“onomatopoeic for; tongue clicking, clucking sound”),[3] morphologically lak + -ır + -tı.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /la.kɯɾˈtɯ/
- Hyphenation: la‧kır‧tı
Noun
lakırtı (definite accusative lakırtıyı, plural lakırtılar)
- Talking, speaking, conversation.
- (figuratively) Idle talk, chatter, rumor, gossip.
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لاقردی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1620
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1638
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lakırdı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “lakırtı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu