اكری
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ägri), from Proto-Turkic *egri,[1] a development of *eg- (“to bend”). Cognate with Azerbaijani əyri, Gagauz iiri and Uyghur ئەگرى (egri).
Adjective
[edit]اكری • (eğri)
- crooked, curved, bent, askew, awry, not straight, having one or more bends, curves, or angles
- perverse, perverted, deviant, whose behaviour is against social norms, standards, or conventions
- Synonym: صاپق (sapık)
Noun
[edit]اكری • (eğri) (definite accusative اكریی (eğriyi), plural اكریلر (eğriler))
- bend, curve, wimple, a line or outline which gradually deviates from being straight for some or all of its length
Derived terms
[edit]- اكری اوتورمق (eğri oturmak, “to sit in an unseemly posture”)
- اكری باقمق (eğri bakmak, “to look slantwise”)
- اكری بوكری (eğri büğrü, “twisted, gnarled”)
- اكری قپو (eğri kapu, “name of one of the gates of Istanbul”)
- اكری كتمك (eğri gitmek, “to deviate, to go wrong”)
- اكری چهره (eğri çehre, “a cross look”)
- اكریتمك (eğritmek, “to make crooked”)
- اكریجه (eğrice, “somewhat crooked; Achilles tendon”)
- اكریلك (eğrilik, “crookedness, curvature”)
- بویونی اكری (boyunu eğri, “wry-necked; humble, submissive”)
- چهره اكریسی (çehre eğrisi, “a cross look”)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: eğri
References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “eğri”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 112
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اكری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 91
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eğri”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1383
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اكری”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 56b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اكری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 127
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Curvus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 316
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اكری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 350
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eğri”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اكری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 172