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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish صارقندی (ṣarḳındı, “robbery, spoliation, violence, oppression”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish صارقنمق (ṣarḳınmaḳ, “to hang or lean to one side, to attack, to raid”), from Ottoman Turkish صارقمق (ṣarḳmaḳ, “to hang loosely, to drop or lag astern”), from Proto-Turkic *sark- (“to hang loosely, to swing, to drip”),[2][3] morphologically sark- + -ın + -tı.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saɾ.kɯnˈtɯ/
- Hyphenation: sar‧kın‧tı
Noun
sarkıntı (definite accusative sarkıntıyı, plural sarkıntılar)
- Something that is hanging, sagging or drooping.
- The act of picking on, teasing, harassing.
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صارقندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1154
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sark-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sark-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “sarkıntı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu