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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish صیزندی (ṣızındı, “oozings, tricklings, ozzings of secrets or information”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish صیزنمق (ṣızınmaḳ, “to ooze gently and continuously”), from Ottoman Turkish صیزمق (ṣızmaḳ, “to ooze, to trickle, (for secrets) to leak out, (for a drunken or sleepy person) to sink into unconsciousness”), from Proto-Turkic *sïŕ- (“to melt, to drip, to slowly flow”),[2] morphologically sız- + ın + -tı.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɯ.zɯnˈtɯ/
- Hyphenation: sı‧zın‧tı
Noun
sızıntı (definite accusative sızıntıyı, plural sızıntılar)
- A leak, leakage, seepage.
Declension
References
Further reading
- “sızıntı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sızıntı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 4, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4226
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN