ebediyen
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ابدیاً (ebediyyen),[1] from Arabic أَبَدِيًّا (ʔabadiyyan) adverbial accusative of أَبَدِيّ (ʔabadiyy, “eternal”), from أَبَد (ʔabad, “eternity”) + ـِيّ (-iyy, nisba suffix).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ebediyen
- forever, eternally
- Synonyms: sonsuza kadar, sonsuza dek, daima, (dated) ilelebet
- (in negative sentences) never
- Synonyms: hiçbir zaman, asla, katiyen
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “اَبَدِیاً”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 65
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ebet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “ebediyen”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ebediyen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1351