kısıntı
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish قیصمق (ḳısmaḳ, “to catch, to pinch, to fold, to crease, to be stingy with money”),[1] from Proto-Turkic *kïs- (“to squeeze, to restrain, to constrict, to limit the freedom of”),[2] morphologically kıs- + -ın + -tı.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kısıntı (definite accusative kısıntıyı, plural kısıntılar)
- The act of being thrifty or cutting down on any necessity; restriction, curtailment, limitation.
- Synonym: (obsolete) tahdit
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیصمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1508
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kıs-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “kısıntı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu