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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish سرپندی (serpindi, “any thing slightly sprinkled or scattered about, a slight rain, sleet or snow, the unexpected ill effects of a remote cause”),[1] alternatively سرپنتی (serpinti), from Ottoman Turkish سرپنمك (serpinmek, “to sprinkle over one's self, to sprinkle slightly”), from Ottoman Turkish سرپمك (serpmek, “to sprinkle slightly, to scatter, (of rain) to fall in a sprinkle”), from Proto-Turkic *sep- (“to scatter, to sprinkle”),[2][3] morphologically serp- + -in + -ti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seɾ.pinˈti/
- Hyphenation: ser‧pin‧ti
Noun
serpinti (definite accusative serpintiyi, plural serpintiler)
- The part of something that scatters or sprinkles about; fallout.
- Synonyms: saçıntı, döküntü
- (of rain or snow) To sprinkle or fall in small particles; drizzle, spray.
- (figurative) The gradually diminishing aftereffects of something; fallout.
Declension
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرپندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1050
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sep-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “serp-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “serpinti”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu