tane tane
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduplication of tane (“a single piece, a unit, a grain”), inherited from Ottoman Turkish دانه دانه (tāne tāne),[1][2] from دانه (tane, dane).[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- one by one, piece by piece
- Synonyms: teker teker, birer birer
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دانه دانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 885
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دانه دانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 564
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tane”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “tane tane”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tane tane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4577