anadan doğma
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom ana (“mother, (by extension) main, essential”) + -dan (ablative suffix) + doğ- (“to be born”) + -ma (verbal noun suffix), literally “as one was born from their mother”.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
edit- (figuratively) naked as the day one was born, in one's birthday suit; completely naked
- Synonyms: anadan üryan, çırçıplak, çırılçıplak
- Bornozunu çıkardı ve anadan doğma havuza girdi. ― She took off her bathrobe and went into the pool completely naked.
- (figuratively) since birth
- Synonyms: doğuştan, yaratılıştan, (dated) fıtri
- Hiç aşık olmamış birine aşkı anlatmak, anadan doğma kör birine yakamozların güzelliğini anlatmaya benzer. ― Describing love to someone who's never fallen in love is like describing the beauty of the moonlight's reflection off the sea to someone who is blind since birth.
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “anadan doğma”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “anadan doğma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 239