aday adayı
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From aday (“candidate”) + aday + -ı (possessive suffix), literally “candidate of candidate”, from ad (“name”) + -ay, from Proto-Turkic *āt (“name”).[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aday adayı (definite accusative aday adayını, plural aday adayları)
- A person who applies to achieve candidate status for a certain position.
- A person who stands as candidate in a primary election or a candidate nomination event within their political party in a congressional or senatorial election.
Declension edit
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | aday adayı | |
| Definite accusative | aday adayını | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | aday adayı | aday adayları |
| Definite accusative | aday adayını | aday adaylarını |
| Dative | aday adayına | aday adaylarına |
| Locative | aday adayında | aday adaylarında |
| Ablative | aday adayından | aday adaylarından |
| Genitive | aday adayının | aday adaylarının |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*āt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aday”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading edit
- “aday adayı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aday adayı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 111