birdenbire
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish بردن بره (birden bire, “all of a sudden”),[1] compound of bir (“a, one, indefinite determiner”) + -den (ablative suffix) + bir + -e (dative suffix), literally “from one to one”.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editbirdenbire
Related terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بردن بره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 350
Further reading
edit- “birdenbire”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “birdenbire”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 621