evvel ahir
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اول آخر (evvel āḫir),[1] from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal) and آخِر (ʔāḵir),[2][3] equivalent to evvel (“before, first”) + ahir (“after, last”). Cognates with Azerbaijani əvvəl-axır, Turkmen owal-ahyr.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- (archaic) sooner or later
- Synonyms: er geç, er ya da geç, eninde sonunda, önünde sonunda, sonunda
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اول آخر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 199
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “evvel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ahir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “evvel ahir”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu