cayır cayır
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Reduplication of cayır, inherited from Ottoman Turkish جایر (cayır, “onomatopoeic for; with hissing or crackling noise”).[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
- (mainly of something burning, rarely of tearing, splitting apart) violently, quickly, with crackling noises
- Ormanlarımız yaz aylarında cayır cayır yanıyor. ― Our forests are burning violently in summer months.
- (by extension) (of a burning sensation or fever) painfully, severely
- (by extension) (of temperature) scorching hot
- Dışarısı cayır cayır yanarken 40 yıllık çınar ağaçlarının altı püfür püfür olurdu. ― When it was scorching hot outside, it would be breezy under 40 year-old sycamores.
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جایر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 640
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cayır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading edit
- “cayır cayır”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cayır cayır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 762