kopuntu
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish قوپمق (ḳopmaḳ, “to break off, to start off, to begin”),[1] from Proto-Turkic *kop- (“to come out, to move out”),[2] morphologically kop- + -un + -tu.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkopuntu (definite accusative kopuntuyu, plural kopuntular)
- A piece broken off from the whole.
- (sociology) A minority living away from their homeland; diaspora.
Declension
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوپمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1479
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kop-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “kopuntu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu