boş yere
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish بوش یره (boş yere, “in vain, groundlessly”),[1] equivalent to compound of boş (“empty, idle, vain”) + yer (“place, ground, situation”) + -e (dative suffix), literally “to an empty place”.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
edit- in vain, to no purpose
- Synonyms: boşa, boşuna, boşu boşuna, boş boş
Related terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوش یره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 401
Further reading
edit- “boş yere”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boş yere”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 657