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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish سرسری (serseri, “whimsical, vagrant, vagabond”) from Persian سرسری (sarsari).
Adjective
serseri
- straggler, vagrant
- loose (not fixed in place, not under control)
1936 April 1, Ulusal Birlik, page 2:Karı koca kendilerini içkiye vermişler çocuklarını unutmuşlar […] Kadın, içki yüzünden aklını oynatmış, çocuklarını serseri olarak yaşamağa bırakmıştır.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
References
- “serseri”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “serseri”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرسری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1052
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN