mutlaka
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مطلقا (mutlaka, “absolutely”),[1] derived from Arabic مُطْلَقًا (muṭlaqan), adverbial accusative of مُطْلَق (muṭlaq, “absolute”), with loss of the nunation, resulting in mutlaka instead of expected *mutlakan, with pronunciation of final /aː/ instead of /an/ (compare Turkish mesela, for Arabic مَثَلاً (maṯalan), or evvela, for Arabic أَوَّلًا (ʔawwalan)). By surface analysis, mutlak (“absolute”) + -an (adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mutlaka
- definitely, absolutely, unconditionally
- Synonyms: kesinlikle, muhakkak, elbette, katiyen
References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مطلقا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1892
Further reading
[edit]- “mutlaka”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mutlak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük