yıkıntı
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish ییقندی (yıḳındı, yıḳıntı, “materials or debris from a demolished building”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish ییقنمق (yıkınmaḳ, “to throw one's self down, to let one's self fall”), from Ottoman Turkish ییقمق (yıkmaḳ, “to pull down, to pull down, to demolish, to overthrow”), from Proto-Turkic *yïk- (“to crush, to demolish, to overthrow”),[2][3] morphologically yık- + -ın + -tı.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edityıkıntı (definite accusative yıkıntıyı, plural yıkıntılar)
- Scattered pieces of a thing that collapsed or was demolished; debris, wreckage, rubble.
- A building in a heavy disrepair; a derelict, dilapidated building.
- Destruction, devastation.
- (figuratively) Mental devastation.
Declension
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییقندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2223
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jɨk-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yık-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “yıkıntı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu