serserice
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سرسریجه (serserice),[1] from سرسری (serseri),[2] equivalent to serseri (“punk, vagrant, tramp”) + -ce.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]serserice
Adverb
[edit]serserice
- In a manner befitting a vagrant.
- Synonyms: serseri serseri, (obsolete) serseriyane
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “سَرسَریجه”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 717
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “serseri”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “serserice”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “serserice”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4164