kahvaltı
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish قهوه آلتی (ḳahve altı, “food taken before coffee; especially breakfast or lunch”),[1][2][3] from قهوه (ḳahve) and آلت (alt), equivalent to kahve (“coffee”) + alt (“under, lower, below”) + -ı (possessive suffix), literally “under coffee”.[4]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkahvaltı (definite accusative kahvaltıyı, plural kahvaltılar)
- breakfast (first meal of the day)
Declension
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editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قهوه آلتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 181
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قهوه آلتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 995
- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “قَهوه آلتی”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1121
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kahvaltı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “kahvaltı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kahvaltı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2338