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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صیقندی (sıkındı, sıkıntı, “anything expressed as juice, oil etc, temporary bodily inconvenience or pressing want, embarrassment, suffering”),[1] from صیقنمق (sıkınmak, “to restrain, to constrain one's self”), from Proto-Turkic *sïk- (“to squeeze, to compress”),[2] morphologically sık- + -ın + -tı.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɯ.kɯnˈtɯ/
- Hyphenation: sı‧kın‧tı
Noun
sıkıntı (definite accusative sıkıntıyı, plural sıkıntılar)
- Mental exhaustion, boredom, tedium.
- Economic or emotional distress, hardship, tribulation.
- A trouble, problem.
- Synonyms: mesele, (slang) mevzu, problem, sorun
- Sıkıntı yok! ― No problem!
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Further reading
- “sıkıntı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu