kıvanç
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوانج (kıvanç, “joy; vain, conceited”, noun; adjective). From Proto-Turkic *kïb (“luck, happiness”).[1] Cognate with Kazakh қуаныш (quanyş, “joy”), Kyrgyz кубаныч (kubanıc), etc.
Noun
[edit]kıvanç (definite accusative kıvancı, plural kıvançlar)
- pleasure
- kıvanç duymak ― to be proud of something (literally, “to feel pleasure”)
Declension
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kɨb”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill