dolayı

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طولایی (dolayı, “surrounding; pertaining, concerning”), from the same root as dolamak. Cognate with Azerbaijani dolayı.

Postposition

dolayı

1. because of, for, due to

   Sorunlarından dolayı bilgisayar kapandı.

   The computer was closed because of the problems.

Synonyms

• ötürü

Derived terms

• şundan dolayı

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dolayı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولایی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1261