sallantı
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish صاللانمق (ṣallanmaḳ, “to swing, to rock, to oscillate, to vibrate, to falter”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish صاللامق (ṣallamaḳ, “to swing or rock to and fro, to mind, to pay attention”), from Ottoman Turkish صالمق (ṣalmaḳ, “to let go, to free, to let hang down, to send”), from Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to swing, to let hang down, to let go, to spare, to set free, to drop, to lower”),[2][3] morphologically salla- + -n + -tı.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sallantı (definite accusative sallantıyı, plural sallantılar)
- The act of rocking, shaking, wobbling.
- (figuratively) Leaving something in suspense, delaying, procrastinating.
Declension
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاللانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1161
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sal-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “salla-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “sallantı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu