kırk
Gagauz edit
| < 39 | 40 | 41 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : kırk Ordinal : kırkıncı | ||
Etymology edit
From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kırk, “forty”), from Proto-Turkic *kïrk (“forty”).
Numeral edit
kırk
Turkish edit
| 400 | ||||
| ← 30 | ← 39 | 40 | 41 → | 50 → |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | ||||
| Cardinal: kırk Ordinal: kırkıncı Distributive: kırkar | ||||
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قرق (kırk, “forty; many”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kırk, “forty”), from Proto-Turkic *kïrk (“forty”).
Pronunciation edit
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Numeral edit
kırk
- forty (in idiomatic expressions it often relates to an unspecified number)
Derived terms edit
- (idiomatic expressions)
- kırk kere (sordu) (asked for) umpteen;untold times)
- kırk dereden su getirmek (make all kinds of excuses, literally “carry water from forty different creeks”)
- kılı kırk yarma (finicalness; split hairs)
- kırk yıllık kani olur mu yani (you can not teach an old dog a new trick)
- yalancı kırk yılda bir doğru söylese de inanan olmaz (liar is not believed even when he tells the truth)
- kırk yılda bir (once in a blue moon)
- kırk yıl düşünsem aklıma gelmezdi (beat all, not even in one's wildest dreams) (for better or worse)
References edit
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قرق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 954