دلی

See also: دلى and دلي

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دلو (delü)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دلی, from Proto-Turkic *tēlbe (“mad, crazy”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dəli, Bashkir тиле (tile), Kazakh дәлду (däldu), Kyrgyz тели (teli), Turkmen däli, Uyghur تەلۋە (telwe) and Uzbek telba.

Adjective

دلی • (deli)

1. mad, crazy, insane, lunatic, bonkers, not sane, exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind, mentally deranged

   Synonyms: احمق (ahmak), دیوانه (divane), مجنون (mecnun)

2. whimsical, eccentric, quirky, bizarre, odd, given to quirks or idiosyncrasies, strange in a somewhat silly, manner
3. inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthoughtful, not considerate, showing lack of due thought or care for the other people
4. rash, foolhardy, reckless, impulsive, precipitate, acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks

Noun

دلی • (deli) (definite accusative دلیی (deliyi), plural دلیلر (deliler))

1. madman, madwoman, loony, nut, psycho, schizo, nutcase, a person who is insane or mentally disturbed
2. (historical) deli, a member of a light cavalry unit within the Ottoman Empire created to act as a shock troop

Derived terms

• جنك دلیسی (cenk delisi, “mad for war”)
• دلی آلاجه‌سی (deli alacası, “a bizarre matching of colors”)
• دلی اورمان (deli orman, “vast forest”)
• دلی باشی (deli başı, “leader of an irregular cavalry”)
• دلی بال (deli bal, “honey of low quality”)
• دلی دومان (deli duman, “whimsical and violent”)
• دلی دیوانه اولمق (deli divane olmak, “to become mad or crazy”)
• دلی صاچمه‌سی (deli saçması, “foolish or incongruous talk”)
• دلی طولو (deli dolu, “thoughtless, inconsiderate”)
• دلی فشك (deli fişek, “a reckless person”)
• دلی مانطار (deli mantar, “unedible mushroom”)
• دلیانه (deliyane, “pertaining to a madman”)
• دلیجه (delice, “maddish, somewhat mad”)
• دلیسی اولمق (delisi olmak, “to become mad or crazy”)
• دلیقانلو (delikanlı, “young man, lad”)
• دلیلك (delilik, “madness, craziness”)
• دلیلندرمك (delilendirmek, “to make or let become mad”)
• دلیلنمك (delilenmek, “to become mad or crazy”)
• زیر دلی (zır deli, “completely mad or crazy”)
• نه اولدم دلیسی (ne oldum delisi, “person full of fancies”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: deli
• Turkish: deli
  • → Swedish: deli
• → Armenian: տէլի (tēli)
• → Greek: ντελής (ntelís)
• → Hungarian: deli
• → Serbo-Croatian: delija

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دلی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 751
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “deli”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1138
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دلی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 229a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دلی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 580
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stultus”, 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 1607
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دلی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2131
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “deli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دلی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 912

Urdu

Etymology

Transliteration of Hindi दिल्ली (dillī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɪl.liː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Proper noun

دِلّی • (dillī) f (Hindi spelling दिल्ली)

1. (India, informal) Alternative form of دِہْلی (dihlī, “Delhi”)

Usage notes

This term is mainly used informally. The standard term for Delhi in Urdu is دہلی (dehlī).

See also

• (Union territories) یونین علاقہ (yūniyan ilāqā); جزائر انڈمان و نکوبار (jazāir-e-anḍamān-o-nikobār), چنڈی گڑھ (candī-gaṛh), دادرا و نگر حویلی و دمن و دیو (dādrā-o-nagar-havailī-o-daman-o-dīv), دہلی (dihlī), جموں و کشمیر (jammū̃-o-kaśmīr), لداخ (laddāx), لکشادیپ (lakśādīp), پدوچیری (pudūcerī), ^{(Category: ur:Union territories of India)}