ölesiye
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From öl- (“to die”) + -esiye (adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ölesiye
- as much as to face death, to death
- Synonym: ölürcesine
- (figuratively) to a great degree, to excess
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ölesiye”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ölesiye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3689