ağır ağır
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduplication of ağır, inherited from Ottoman Turkish آغر آغر[1] or آغیر آغیر (aġır aġır, “slowly”),[2] from Proto-Turkic *iagïr (“heavy”).[3][4]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- slowly, at a slow pace
- Synonyms: yavaş yavaş, yavaşça, usulca, aheste aheste
- carefully and meticulously
- In a full, weighty manner.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آغر آغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 148
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آغیر آغیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 24
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*iagɨr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ağır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “ağır ağır”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ağır ağır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 136