karış karış
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Reduplication of karış (“a handspan”), inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاریش قاریش[1][2] or قارش قارش (ḳarış ḳarış),[3] from قاریش or قارش (ḳarış).[4]
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
- (figuratively) every inch of something, in every aspect, down to its smallest detail
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “قاریش قاریش”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1024
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاریش قاریش آرامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 926
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارش قارش ایتمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1410
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karış”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading edit
- “karış karış”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karış karış”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2437