bozuntu
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish بوزنتی (bozuntu, “old materials”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish بوزمق (bozmaḳ, “to demolish, to take down, to destroy, to put out of repair, to change for the worse, to throw into confusion, to defeat, (of weather) to become rough or stormy”), from Proto-Turkic *buŕ- (“to destroy, to ruin”),[2] morphologically boz- + -un + -tu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bozuntu (definite accusative bozuntuyu, plural bozuntular)
- Remnants of something broken; scrap, bits and pieces.
- Something that is no longer used for its original purpose due to deterioration, neglect or being subtituted for something else; formerly, previously, once.
- Synonym: bozma
- Maliye teşkilatı, apartman bozuntusu bir binada hizmet veriyor. ― The finance agency is operating out of a building, formerly an apartment block.
- Bir ahır bozuntusu olan köy okulu binası onarıldı, sıtma kaynağı bataklık kurutuldu. ― The village school building, once a barn, was repaired, the malaria swamp was dried up.
- (figuratively, derogatory) Someone or something that does not possess the qualities they are supposed to, a bad example of what they are supposed to be; a sorry or poor excuse for something, a travesty of something.
- Çık git buradan tamirci bozuntusu! ― Get out of here you sorry excuse for a mechanic!
- İstasyona vardığımızda tozlu topraklı bir yol bozuntusu karşılamıştı bizi. ― When we got to the station, we were greeted with a dusty, dirty travesty of a road.
- Being befuddled, flabbergasted, nonplussed.
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزنتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 400
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boz-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “bozuntu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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