delikanlı
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish دلیقانلی, دلیقانلو (delikanlı), equivalent to deli (“crazy”) + kan (“blood”) + -lı (“with”). "He who has crazy blood".
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]delikanlı
- honest (male person)
Noun
[edit]delikanlı (definite accusative delikanlıyı, plural delikanlılar)
- young man (an adolescent who recently got out of his childhood)
Declension
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[edit]References
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دلیقانلی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 580