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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish سوپورندی (süpüründü, “sweepings, rubbish, rabble”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish سوپورمك (süpürmek, “to sweep, to brush clothes”), from Proto-Turkic *sipür- (“to sweep”),[2][3] morphologically süpür- + -ün + tü.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syp.ɾynˈty/
- Hyphenation: süp‧rün‧tü
Noun
süprüntü (definite accusative süprüntüyü, plural süprüntüler)
- The dust and garbage collected during sweeping.
- (figuratively, derogatory) Common, worthless thing or people; rabble.
Declension
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوپورندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1087
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sipür-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “süpür-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “süprüntü”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu