kıskıvrak
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قیص قیوراق (ḳıs ḳıvraḳ),[1][2][3] likely from قیصمق (ḳısmaḳ) and قاورامق (ḳavramaḳ), not from قیوراق (ḳıvraḳ, “lively, agile, sharp”),[4] equivalent to kıs- (“to pinch, to squeeze”) + kavra- (“to grab, to seize”) + -k (adjectival participle suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]kıskıvrak
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیص قیوراق باغلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1511
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیص قیوراق باغلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1002
- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “قیص قیوراق باغلامق”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1133
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kıskıvrak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “kıskıvrak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kıskıvrak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2636