yalandan
Azerbaijani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From singular ablative of yalan.
Adverb
[edit]yalandan
- pretendingly, as to pretend, not genuinely
Further reading
[edit]- “yalandan” in Obastan.com.
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یالاندن (yalandan),[1][2] from یالان (yalan),[3] equivalent to yalan (“lie, untruth”) + -dan (ablative suffix), literally “from (the) lie”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]yalandan
- falsely, artificially, in a pretend and theatrical way
- Synonyms: yalancıktan, numaradan, (archaic) sureta
- only for show, without proper care, cursorily
- Synonyms: üstünkörü, baştan savma, eğreti
Noun
[edit]yalandan
References
[edit]- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “یالاندن”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1535
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یالاندن سویلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1343
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yalan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “yalandan”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yalandan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5173