delikanlı
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish دلیقانلی, دلیقانلو (delikanlı), equivalent to deli (“crazy”) + kan (“blood”) + -lı (“with”). "He who has crazy blood".
Pronunciation
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Noun
delikanlı (definite accusative delikanlıyı, plural delikanlılar)
- young man (an adolescent who recently got out of his childhood)
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Related terms
- delikanlılık
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دلیقانلی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 580
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