yaka paça
Turkish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish یاقه پاچه (yaḳa paça),[1][2][3] from یاقه (yaḳa) and پاچه (paça),[4][5] equivalent to yaka (“collar, neck”) + paça (“cuff of a pant leg, lower part of the leg of a garment”), literally “the collar and the pant leg”.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
edit- (idiomatic, of making someone move) against one's will, forcibly and violently, by pushing and pulling
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “یاقه پاچه”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1533
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاقه پاچه قاورامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2189
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاقه پاچه ایتمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1342
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yaka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “paça”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “yaka paça”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yaka paça”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5163