bata çıka
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bat- (“to sink, to dive”) + -a (adverbial suffix) + çık- (“to rise, to ascend, to come up or out”) + -a (adverbial suffix), literally “by sinking and coming up”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- (idiomatic) (of movement) with difficulty, by fits and starts, fitfully
- Synonyms: güçlükle, zorlukla, öle dirile, zar zor, düşe kalka
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bata çıka”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bata çıka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 506