sayın
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Chagatai [script needed] (sayın, “good, well, distinguished”), from a Mongolic language (compare modern Mongolian сайн (sajn, “good, well”)).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sayın
- A formal way of addressing a person or people in a formal context or in a starting of a speech, letter, message, memo, etc., honorable, dear, esteemed, fellow
- Synonyms: saygıdeğer, muhterem
- Sayın yoldaşlarım...
- My fellow comrades
- Sayın başbakanım, demeye çalıştığım şey...
- Dear prime minister, what I was trying to say was...
- A formal honorific title used when talking about someone in a formal context
- Sayın cumhurbaşkanımızın da dediği gibi...
- Just as our honorable president has said...
Further reading
[edit]- “sayın”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sayın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük